disagreeablyadv.
/ˌdɪsəˈɡriːəbli/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈɡriəbli/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adverb]
wrongc1175
unkindlyc1300
wrongly1303
unworthily1377
uncovenablya1382
improperly1390
inconveniently1509
ineptly1523
impertinently1546
unaptly1548
unfeatly1548
unhandsomely1548
unfitly1561
disagreeably1566
unmeet1577
unsuitably1624
malapropos1630
unfittingly1637
unfit1653
unworthy1661
inaptly1809
misappropriatelyc1831
infelicitouslya1834
ineligibly1846
inappropriately1847
inapplicably1864
unapropos1956
1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 164 He applieth thereto, the Testimonies of Auncient Fathers, so loosely and so disagreeably.
1619 T. Preston Roger Widdringtons Last Rejoynder viii. 119 Mr. Fitzherbert..speaketh not onely improbably, and disagreeably to the doctrine of Suarez..but also discouereth heerein his great want of iudgement.
1681 W. Penn Brief Exam. & State Liberty Spiritual 8 All then cannot be the Eye..for then they would confound their Office, and act disagreeably to the Ordination.
1749 J. Mason Ess. Power of Numbers & Princ. Harmony 83 An Iambic..having a direct contrary Movement, interrupts the Run of the Verse very disagreeably.
2. Unpleasantly; offensively; (also) to an unpleasant extent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [adverb] > in unpleasant manner
illa1275
unsavourly1377
unlovelyc1400
sour?a1513
beastly?1518
unfaringly1519
unpleasantly1542
ill-favouredly1545
uncomfortably1548
offensively1576
ungratefullya1586
adversely1593
unpleasingly1597
displeasantly1607
unsavourily1611
distastefully1631
unwelcomely1642
displeasurably1648
disagreeably1656
disgustfully1731
displeasingly1731
unpalatably1741
poisonously1746
undelightfully1749
awfully1815
unpleasurably1823
objectionably1825
unagreeably1850
disgustingly1856
undesirably1890
1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans i. 12 One of the wisest of our English Kings..treated the Earl of Oxford most disagreeably.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. b2/2 It [sc. Pulp] is called Doughy, when it is fattish and disagreeably soft like Dough.
1766 T. Gray Let. 26 Aug. in Corr. (1971) III. 929 I made a shift to pass May & June not disagreeably in Kent.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxix. 284 You may find yourself very disagreeably deceived.
1847 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Wks. (1906) I. 333 Swedenborg is disagreeably wise..and repels.
1920 Boys' Life Nov. 10/3 A big spot on his back burned disagreeably.
1946 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Mar. 177/1 Once a prisoner, for him the war was definitely, and perhaps not altogether disagreeably, over.
2011 D. Ó Donghaile Blasted Lit. ii. 88 Even this..could not separate the novel from the disagreeably radical objectives of the dynamiters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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