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unˈpleasantness
[un-1 12.]
a. The quality of being unpleasant. (Also with a and pl.)
1548Elyot, Iniucunditas, vnpleasauntnesse. 1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. K 3 b, I stand in very little neede..to haue these vnpleasantnesses renued or made lasting vnto me. 1596P. Barrough Meth. Physick viii. 461 So great inconuenience and vnpleasauntnesse of tast. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1156 The Mathematical rudiments which children be taught, at the beginning trouble them..; but this unpleasantnesse continueth not alwaies with them. 1635J. Swan Spec. M. vi. §2 (1643) 201 Sea-water..by passing through divers windings..of the earth, is deprived of all unpleasantnesse. a1665Goodwin Filled with the Spirit (1670) 394 Which would occasion a great disparagement and unpleasantness in the World. 1808L. Murray Eng. Gram. I. 455 Here there is some degree of harshness and unpleasantness [in the rhythm]. 1830Wordsw. in C. Wordsw. Mem. (1851) II. 226 Another unpleasantness arose from the same cause. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xlv, I have made some advances out of pocket to accommodate these unpleasantnesses.
b. the late unpleasantness (U.S.), the American Civil War; also transf.
1868D. R. Locke Ekkoes from Kentucky 23 (Th.), That cuss cum back here, doorin' the late onpleasantniss, kernel of a rigiment. 1872Harper's Mag. Feb. 479/1 During our ‘late unpleasantness’ a convalescent hospital was established..in Nashville. 1903N.Y. Times 19 Sept. 3 The only soldier to be killed from Orange during the late unpleasantness with the Filipinos. 1930S. Henry Conquering Great Amer. Plains 33 When ‘the late unpleasantness’ terminated, the Texan drover lacked a satisfactory market. 1948Amer. Jrnl. Nursing Dec. 770/2 Among the stamps of particular interest to nurses to come out of the ‘late unpleasantness’, are a Hungarian Red Cross series,..and a German child welfare series. 1981Times 25 Aug. 7/1 The British and the Germans..were all of that older generation which well remembers the late unpleasantness between our two countries. |