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unˈpleasantry
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Unpleasantness.
1830‘Jon Bee’ Wks. S. Foote IV. p. xli, It would have been well..if this were all the unpleasantry to which he subjected himself. 1844Alb. Smith Adv. Mr. Ledbury xvi. Had he allowed himself to be depressed by every unpleasantry, he would have had a sad time of it. 1847De Quincey in Tait's Mag. XIV. 520 Without any ‘unpleasantries’ occurring. Ibid. Note, ‘Unpleasantries’..is a new word, launched a very few years back in some commercial towns. 1883Burton & Cameron Gold Coast I. i. 16 A very low barometer, which suggested unpleasantries. |