How To Use Disagreeable In A Sentence

Blomquist also considered the possibility that the driver finds use of the seat belt disagreeable.
It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable. Mary Marston
Everybody shouts it, mule-driver, "coachee," or cattle-driver; and even I, a passenger, fancied I could do it to disagreeable perfection after a time. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
Teenagers don't seem to understand that they don't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people.
If you have a ticket, the web can make the experience less disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times

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He found some disagreeable remnants — a watery stew, cold and sodden; a basin half-full of some kind of tinned soup; a chill suet pudding put away on a shelf. The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club
The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
While it was already known that distilling sea water removed the salt, the process had always left a disagreeable taste.
In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends
There is something disagreeable about Holden. The Times Literary Supplement
One unaccustomed to the use of bonga and chewing it for the first time, usually experiences a most disagreeable combination of symptoms; constriction of the oesophagus, a sensation of heat in the head and face, the latter becoming red and congested; at the same time dizziness and precordial distress are experienced. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
To summarize the most effective method of gaining attention -- _hit each sense to which you appeal as strongly as you can, without making a disagreeable impression, strike as many senses as possible, and keep on using your sense-hitting device as long as necessary to get or to recover exclusive favorable attention_. Certain Success
Some make a greater concession; they admit that disagreeable or unhealthy work -- such as sewerage -- could be paid for at a higher rate than agreeable work. The Conquest of Bread
I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall.
To one possessed of wisdom, the acts of a former period (thus washed off) and those of this life also (which are accomplished without expectation of fruit), do not become productive of any disagreeable consequence (such as immurement in hell). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
Benefactress! benefactress!" said I inwardly: "they all call Mrs. Reed my benefactress; if so, a benefactress is a disagreeable thing. Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.
The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour I so far schooled myself to this new exercise, that Eothen
Buelow was appointed kapellmeister of the Court Theatre; reforms, peculiarly disagreeable to those reformed, were set on foot; and singers, players, regisseurs, who had anticipated sleeping away their existence in the good old fashion, were violently awakened by this reckless adventurer, charlatan, and what not, who had won the King's ear. Wagner
‘Isn't that for sure,’ Joe mumbled not knowing what she meant but never liked to be disagreeable to a woman.
The Vicomte called the contumely heaped on his father's name and his own, "a disagreeable scene. The Son of Monte-Cristo
A mediocrity, not disagreeable, always rules; supremity has been, is, and always will be the stick in the riffle around which the little whirlpool will always centre. The Common Law
Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality. Arabian nights. English
So what are disagreeable people like? Times, Sunday Times
She knew there would be evil, but she had expected it in a more striking and less disagreeable form. The Daisy Chain
'As for amusement, I could kill rats as I used to do; or slaughter a hecatomb of pheasants at Babington,' -- here the old man winced, though the word hecatomb reconciled him a little to the disagreeable allusion. John Caldigate
Exposure to such pressures is apt to be followed by disagreeable and even dangerous physiological effects, which are commonly referred to as caisson disease or compressed air illness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time
That was such a disagreeable thing to be part of, such a horrible thing to be part of, but we were. Times, Sunday Times
Many things might be good for them which would be very disagreeable for other people. North and South
Meanwhile in Cardiff, an unpleasant political became a still more disagreeable labour situation rather quickly.
The Charlie Brown Theory of Personality, James C Kaufman PhD posits the theory that Lucy represents "disagreeableness". The Guardian World News
The Porpus is common on this coast and as far up the river as the water is brackish. the Indians sometimes gig them and always eat the flesh of this fish when they can precure it; to me the flavour is disagreeable. the Skaite is also common to the salt water, I have seen several of them that had perished and were thrown out on the beach by the tide. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
Barby, I believe, has a good opinion of us, and charitably concludes that we mean right; but some other of our country friends would think I was far gone in uppishness if they knew that I never touch fish with a steel knife; and it wouldn't mend the matter much to tell them that the combination of flavours is disagreeable to me – it hardly suits the doctrine of liberty and equality that my palate should be so much nicer than theirs. Queechy
Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
The trot of the dromedary is a pace terribly disagreeable to the rider, until he becomes a little accustomed to it; but after the first half-hour Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
I found a handkerchief tied close, but not too tightly, round the eyes for a whole night, to be a more effectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment, derived equal benefit from it. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
My head felt like a cannon ball; my feet had a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes. Hospital Sketches
This pulque, or octli, has an acid resembling that of cider, and a very disagreeable odor, but the taste is cooling and refreshing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
It's to do my duty as a physician, and they often have disagreeable outcomes when you do your duty, and this is one very disagreeable outcome.
found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it
Surely, since we would not intentionally create such disagreeableness, it must be the product of irresistible unconscious forces.
What's more, I contend that a person who is self-assured and who is not desirous of doing an activity which he/she considers disagreeable will have no need for alcohol.
And then nothing was left but a heap of disagreeables, a mass of corruption, a senile and disgusting old man fit only for the charity of nuns and the protection of an asylum. The Common Reader, Second Series
Mexico. 11 The language of Nootka is by no means harsh or disagreeable; for it abounds, upon the whole, rather with what may be called labial and dental, than with guttural sounds. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
This picture has been recently wretchedly engraved in mezzotinto; all that is in the picture firm and hard, is in the print soft, fuzzy, and disagreeable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
That was such a disagreeable thing to be part of, such a horrible thing to be part of, but we were. Times, Sunday Times
Some faculty members viewed such episodes as part of the eccentricity and disagreeableness that occur in academic life.
Alongside Mone's name, however, we are troubled to find that of Sir Alan Sugar, who was so disagreeable to Lynn Barber recently.
On the other hand (this is the third hand) we ladies sometimes call our bellies 'poochey' or other terms, not exactly terms of endearment, when we've eaten something disagreeable, and the alimentary canal in those parts tend to react and makes the belly stick out. The Moderate Voice
I must make myself very disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend. Emma
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
I need scarcely expatiate upon the delicate and long-continuing fragrance which this luxuriant perfume imparts to all things with which it comes in contact; it is peculiarly calculated for the drawer, writing-desk, &c. since its aroma is totally unmingled with that most disagreeable effluvium, which is ever proceeding from alcohol. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828
I have to admit I find the name a little disagreeable on the aesthetic front.
All allusions, therefore, recalling his mortifying defeat were disagreeable to him. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp
She knew there would be evil, but she had expected it in a more striking and less disagreeable form. The Daisy Chain
Nevertheless, it's unnecessarily disagreeable to suggest to his face that your interviewer actively wishes you ill.
No, she's suing because when she said no, her kids became disagreeable and "pouted" - for which she wants class action status. NY Daily News
So what are disagreeable people like? Times, Sunday Times
The great family of ground beetles (Carabidæ) almost all possess a disagreeable and some a very pungent smell, and a few, called bombardier beetles, have the peculiar faculty of emitting a jet of very volatile liquid, which appears like a puff of smoke, and is accompanied by a distinct crepitating explosion. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
Nature is very liberal in all things; and we have coarse and disagreeable flower odors, supplied by peonies, marigolds, the gay bouvardia, and a still more odious greenhouse flower -- a yellowish, toadlike thing, which those who have once known will never forget, and for which perhaps they can supply a name. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The adjacence of anything disagreeable or evil is misery. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
But all exertion is disagreeable; one feels content to sit and compose chapters of novels in one's whirling brain, without attempting to commit the fleeting kaleidoscopic images to paper. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
Anthea and Cyril each had a private struggle with that inside disagreeableness which is part of all of us, and which is sometimes called the Old Adam -- and both were victors. The Story of the Amulet
But it is very disagreeable to an Englishman over a bottle with the Highlanders, to see every one of them have his gilly, that is, his servant, standing behind him all the while, let what will be the subject of conversation. The Lady of the Lake
He may be fat, disagreeable, lazy and offensive in almost all he does, but there is no denying just how loveable that makes him.
a disagreeable situation
In spite, however, of these disagreeables, I should recommend any student to suffer them with Spartan courage, as the benefits he receives should repay him an hundredfold for them all. Lay Morals
He should not be surprised if he finds the result disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times
In the hindquarter if the knuckle is limp, and the part under the kidney smells slightly disagreeable, avoid it. Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times
The words felt foul on his tongue, like the aftertaste of something disagreeable, but their impact was immediate.
Most people who allege to have known him personally seem to agree that Calembour was a brilliant, talkative, yet ornery and disagreeable man prone to fits of alcoholism, chain-smoking, argumentativeness, graphomania, and elitism. Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
a disagreeable and unlikable old woman
Meckerei —to use a pejorative noun—can be laced with other qualities, like humor, but usually it amounts to something like shared disagreeableness, and I have written it off as a local oddity. Berlin's Summer of Discontent
I hate to sound disagreeable, and maybe my age is showing, but these days I am finding more and more comfort in the "oldness" of things. Www.appeal-democrat.com - News :
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
Francis of Assisi kisses his lepers; Margaret Mary Alacoque, Francis Xavier, St. John of God, and others are said to have cleansed the sores and ulcers of their patients with their respective tongues; and the lives of such saints as Elizabeth of Hungary and Madame de Chantal are full of a sort of reveling in hospital purulence, disagreeable to read of, and which makes us admire and shudder at the same time. The Varieties of Religious Experience
This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
A sceptical sports editor eventually agreed, although he was predictably disagreeable when what eventually materialised was a ‘Why Monty Should Consider Retiring’ column.
Stale butter or that which is improperly kept develops an acid called _butyric acid_, which gives a disagreeable odor and flavor to butter and often renders it unfit for use. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
a most disagreeable looking character
The shopman was a red-haired Jew, an extraordinary disagreeable man, who used to fall into furious rages at the sight of a client. Down and Out in Paris and London
He should not be surprised if he finds the result disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times
I must make myself very disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend. Emma
Some find it disagreeable to depend on others to go about their lives, while some feel neglected.
June 27, 2005 19: 05 pinder: wow, didn't know so many people were disappointed with the first album. i thought it was a fun, catchy summer album. nothing spectacular, but not disagreeable. Ready, set... (Music (For Robots))
So we hurried up, and as Oswald came out of the cabin he heard strange voices, and his heart leaped up like the persons who "behold a rainbow in the sky," for one of the voices was the voice of that inferior and unsailorlike coastguard from Longbeach, who had gone out of his way to be disagreeable to Oswald and his brothers and sisters on at least two occasions. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
If a candidate promiser to change the tone, doesnt this give the opposition control over whether he keeps his promise, and therefore an incentivde to be disagreeable. Ken Starr backs Sotomayor court bid
The president said he would bring a new tone to Washington, who insisted that "we can disagree without being disagreeable," is now backing an appointee who has repeatedly failed to meet that standard. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Angering a Key Constituency: Women Leaders Ask the President to Fire Alan Simpson
Address; for if I had told my Father or Mother, I shou'd but have embarrass'd them in a difficult Business, for it ill befitted them to profer their Daughter in Marriage, and disagreeable, to leave me to struggle with my own Passion, and his Pretences, without taking any The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia
The mullein plant boiled in milk is liked by the patients; in watery infusion it is disagreeable, and the succus is still more so. Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
The deep-seated hatred can be understood, but this plastic thing on the surface, this hypocrisy is disagreeable, and we try to puncture that in the play.
All the same, the Professor, in spite of his cherubical looks, could make himself extremely disagreeable, and undoubtedly would do so if thwarted. The Green Mummy
The earth-closet is an invention which relieves the most disagreeable item in domestic labor, and prevents the disagreeable and unhealthful effluvium which is almost inevitable in all family residences, The general principle of construction is somewhat like that of a water-closet, except that in place of water is used dried earth. American Woman's Home
But the smell was disagreeable and she was afraid that the white linen would burst into flame.
Eating meat is disagreeable to Thoreau's imagination, and his distaste of it is instinctual.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
This, in turn, had engendered a chronic distrustfulness, and his mind and character had become so warped that he was a very disagreeable man to deal with. THE MAN WITH THE GASH
UNM's Miller, for instance, complains that critics "have convinced a substantial portion of the educated public that evolutionary psychology is a pernicious right-wing conspiracy," and complains that believing in evolutionary psychology is seen "as an indicator of conservatism, disagreeableness and selfishness. Archive 2009-07-01
On all occasions of show and pleasure Jessy took the lead, and Rose fell quietly into the background, whereas, when the disagreeables of life its work and privations - were in question, Rose instinctively took upon her, in addition to her own share, what she could of her sister's. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
As a suggestion perhaps you could arrange viewings involving people who would be disagreeable to live with. Times, Sunday Times
Nor were the disagreeables purely fanciful and metaphysical, for the sway that he exercised over your feelings he extended to your garden, and, through the garden, to your diet. Memories and Portraits
The cell was so small that my legs, which are long, had to be tucked up almost under my chin; I could imagine that in hot weather the want of air would be oppressive, but though the sense of being so closely confined was disagreeable, the draughts from the ventilators seemed to play upon one almost excessively and I felt very cold. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
They tried chuckwallas too, but chuckwalla meat turned out to be more disagreeable than starvation. The Song of The Dodo
The situation is disagreeable to Japan, but Tokyo has put up with it to avoid upsetting bilateral relations.
A cough is simply an effort of the lungs or bronchiæ to remove some offending intruder that ought to be doing duty elsewhere; and may we not call neuralgia _a cough of a nerve_ to get rid of a disagreeable oppression -- nature's legitimate _coup d'état_ to put down and transport those "_red socialist_" particles that would interfere with the regularity of its constitution? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
If you have a ticket, the web can make the experience less disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times
The eight-limbed exoarcheologist must have done something unpopular to have come to a world so disagreeable to his kind. Diuturnity's Dawn
We children forgot a lot of the disagreeableness when the wagon was unloaded and we saw the good things to eat and the yards and yards of calico and outing flannel that Mother had bought to make us new clothes…
Let us hope we do not live to regret that decision," says General Jackson, responding to what he calls "disagreeable noises coming from Buenos Aires" as the 30th anniversary of the war approaches. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
Simon does not elaborate, but his face begins to tighten as he recalls some disagreeable incident.
Another disagreeable factor is the following: the chrome salts must possess a certain degree of basicity in order to produce good leather; the Neradol Synthetic Tannins
One single species of grebe, which is uneatable, found no grace in the eyes of the young merchant; this was the “caiarara,” as quick to dive as to swim or fly; a bird with a disagreeable cry, but whose down bears a high price in the different markets of the Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
One of the lambers at this place was very disagreeable at first.
a tendency to cleave to the floor; the walls at times undulated in a most disagreeable manner; people looked unnaturally big; and the "very bottles on the mankle shelf" appeared to dance derisively before my eyes. Hospital Sketches
From this period, the last twenty years of his life, he gained an unenviable and undeserved reputation for being disagreeable and dishonest. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
“I should be sorry to utter a word disagreeable to your feelings.” Adam Bede
Both the root in substance, and the juice, have a disagreeable smell, and a nauseous, bitter biting taste: applied for some time to the skin, they inflame or even vesicate the part.
We give a sort of paraphrastical synopsis of the poem, which, partly in virtue of its disagreeableness, will enable the lovers of the song to return to it with an increase of pleasure. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse. Making Good on Private Duty
A more disagreeable dish I have never tasted since the days when I used to do Willie Evans's "dags," by walking twice through a sewer, and was subsequently, on returning home, promptly put to bed, and made to eat brimstone and treacle. Diary of a Pilgrimage
Barby, I believe, has a good opinion of us, and charitably concludes that we mean right; but some other of our country friends would think I was far gone in uppishness if they knew that I never touch fish with a steel knife; and it wouldn't mend the matter much to tell them that the combination of flavours is disagreeable to me – it hardly suits the doctrine of liberty and equality that my palate should be so much nicer than theirs. Queechy
A man who has no 'monde' is inflamed with anger, or annihilated with shame, at every disagreeable incident: the one makes him act and talk like a madman, the other makes him look like a fool. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
That's something that a lot of people say is very important, because it creates a situation where people can disagree without being disagreeable.
I wanted to call upon Dr. Johnson, and it is so disagreeable to me to go to him alone, now poor Mrs. Williams is dead, on account of the quantity of men always visiting him, that I most gladly accepted, almost asked, his 'squireship. Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney
He shook religion out of her mind, as it were, and into the vacuum rushed something rather disagreeable.
It is probable, that when mild emetics are given, as ipecacuanha, or antimonium tartarizatum, or infusion of chamomile, they are rejected by an inverted motion of the stomach and oesophagus in consequence of disagreeable sensation, as dust is excluded from the eye; and these actions having by previous habit been found effectual, and that hence there is no exhaustion of the sensorial power of irritation. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
A position in which a player is obliged to move but cannot do so without disadvantage; the disagreeable obligation to make such a move. Times, Sunday Times
The only disagreeable part of the process was when we came to rub noses with Mahine; and Peterkin afterwards said that when he saw his wolfish eyes glaring so close to his face, he felt much more inclined to _bang_ than to _rub_ his nose. The Coral Island
The only disagreeable part of the process was when we came to rub noses with Mahine, and Peterkin afterwards said that when he saw his wolfish eyes glaring so close to his face, he felt much more inclined to _bang_ than to _rub_ his nose. The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
While the majority jostle for a bit more elbow room under their comfy security blanket of togetherness, I find myself left out in the cold with all the other disagreeable old crones.
Every child suffering from warts usually passes through the stage of charms and lingoes which are popularly used to remove these disagreeable growths. The Mother and Her Child
She had the disagreeable impression that she'd now well and truly taken the bait, and was to provide entertainment accordingly.
If lying in the sun or listening to music gives us great pleasure, and dental drills and electrical shocks and nausea are very disagreeable, then it is hardly surprising that we seek out the former and try to avoid the latter.
It makes him shockingly disagreeable. Times, Sunday Times
The coal tar smell, caused by mercaptans (sulphur containing compounds), was disagreeable but the concentrations on site would not cause health problems
The way in which Longus excites the sensual desires of the lovers by means of licentious experiments going always only to the verge of gratification, betrays an abominably hypocritical _raffinement_ [331] which reveals in the most disagreeable manner that the naïveté of this idyllist is a premeditated artifice and he himself nothing but a sophist. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Although he might be in culinary heaven - ‘If you're talking about food in France, you can't go wrong’ - his disagreeable kids are less than enthused.
it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable
George Davis was left with six cats, a disagreeable parrot and an Austrian houseman whom George allowed to steal from him because he brought him orange juice in bed.
'I know it is wrong and it is cruel, and it is worse than wrong and cruel, it is what you English call underbred, to be so individually disagreeable, but this grievance of mine has been weighing very heavily on my heart, and Lord Kilgobbin
As to the man himself, there is a point at which virtue becomes vice, and vice versâ, and his pusillanimity in shrinking from the inconvenience and terrible disagreeableness of 'making a row' coincides with his good-nature. Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
Some of them are produced by rough, others by abstergent, others by inflammatory substances, -- these act upon the testing instruments of the tongue, and produce a more or less disagreeable sensation, while other particles congenial to the tongue soften and harmonize them. Timaeus
Finally, he found that mothers’ agreeableness during mother-child game-playing tasks was negatively correlated with children's disagreeableness during child-peer interactions.
Una and Faith exchanged looks which said, "Now something disagreeable is coming. Rainbow Valley
He has a particularly disagreeable grunt when he does not understand what you say, and desires a repetition.
Simon does not elaborate, but his face begins to tighten as he recalls some disagreeable incident.
“In the name of Merlin and Maugis,” answered a hoarse, disagreeable voice, “tie up your fourfooted demon there, or I come not at you.” The Talisman
Each character is hideously depicted via limp dialogue, grating accents, silly lisps, unnatural body movements, and an overall disagreeable personality.
There are few more disagreeable experiences than to have to hold a front line trench after the enemy has been heard at work underground. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, when we converse with a man with whom we can entirely sympathise, that is when there is a warm and intimate friendship, the cordial openness of such a commerce overbears the pain of a disagreeable sympathy, and renders the whole movement agreeable, but in ordinary cases this cannot have place. Life of Adam Smith
Maybe saying, "awesome", is like spitting away bad news, debate, or any hint of disagreeableness. Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Ixnay Communique: If Everything's So Awesome, Where Is The Love?
Similarly, if certain disagreeable behavior is “commonly found” on the Left, then it should be easy for you to pick fights with the Left when they actually exhibit the behavior. Matthew Yglesias » Strange Populists
Isocrates about thirty verses, most of them senarian, and some of them anapest, which in prose have a more disagreeable effect than any others. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
As for a cat itself, I cannot say too much against it; and it is singular, that the other meanings of the single word are equally disagreeable; as to _cat_ the anchor, is a sign of _going to sea_, and the _cat_ at the gangway is the worst of all. Olla Podrida
It had never occurred to Gwyn that one person could be so rude and disagreeable.
The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description. Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English
The subway system finds ever more cunning ways to make itself disagreeable to the sorry traveller.
It has a sweetish taste, but a disagreeable smell, and is generally given in the form of a decoction, which is made by boiling an ounce of the dried bark in a quart of water until it assumes the color of Madeira wine. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
This paper had been particularly disagreeable concerning the "dividend-cooking" system of certain of the Comstock mines, at the same time calling invidious attention to safer investments in California stocks. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
Anglicanism that seemed to carry with it innumerable "shalts" and "shalt nots," disagreeable to the natural man or woman, soon found her a tiring and trying companion. Lady Rose's Daughter
You are so dreadfully disagreeable to-day. Daniel Deronda
Noise can be described as any loud or unmusical or disagreeable sound that is prolonged and can be damaging or deafening to the ear.
Other than to surrender to YOUR version of Amerika, is there any way for us to disagree without being disagreeable? Obama delays Hawaii vacation over Senate vote
At its simplest the aura may take the form of a familiar odour, or more commonly a disagreeable or even disgusting one.
These "values" used to be cotemporaneous with the Englightenment's liberal values, but now they have a decidedly moral and religious cast that the Founders would have found immensely disagreeable. Balkinization
I know that they were felt to be too long, and I reproached myself with this, fearing that they might be not only tedious but irrelevant; and all that I have now said is only designed to prevent the recurrence of any such disagreeables for the future. The Statesman
Or, as in the case of the post about [Jamaican dub poet] Mutabaruka, I wielded censorial license and locked off one respondent who was extremely aggressive and disagreeable. Global Voices in English » Talking to Indian-Jamaican writer and blogger Annie Paul
But this chimney smokes, which is very disagreeable. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
He was in an argumentative mood and appeared disagreeable with his assignment in Denver. Times, Sunday Times
Having given our names at the gate, we repaired to the dogana, or custom-house, where our trunks and carriage were searched; and here we were surrounded by a number of servitori de piazza, offering their services with the most disagreeable importunity. Travels through France and Italy
Though censured, the two Krishnas, however, spoke not a word disagreeable (to the dying hero). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
On recognizing that he is being haunted, the subject enters immediately into "phase two," which, though varying in intensity from subject to subject, is always disagreeable: often sedation (0.6 mg atropine subcut.) will be necessary, even though Oneirine is classified as a CNS depressant. Gravity's Rainbow
Although the novelties of the moderns were never disagreeable to our desires, who have always cherished with grateful affection those who devote themselves to study and who add anything either ingenious or useful to the opinions of our forefathers, yet we have always desired with more undoubting avidity to investigate the well-tested labours of the ancients. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
There is something disagreeable about Holden. The Times Literary Supplement
But all this takes time; and as by degrees the "disagreeables" of the voyage down the Danube will be changed into agreeables, we shall allude no more to the noble traveller's voyage, than to say, that on the 4th of November, a day of more than autumnal beauty, his steamer anchored in the Bosphorus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications. It's Time To Pardon Carbon
Battles cost money that Pakistan can ill afford - they also have a nasty habit of escalating into something much more disagreeable.
It was disagreeable to me, but I did exercise it, and no other power can be exercised in that Country.
In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
Has your student gone from predictably polite and compliant to moody and disagreeable?
I experience things as beautiful or ugly, pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable.
Two species of Castaneae occur in these woods, one with very stout thorns to its cupula, and not eatable fruit; the other has long slender prickles, and its fruit about the size of an acorn, is eatable, and not at all disagreeable. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
It is easy to grant people the freedom to do what is agreeable to us; freedom is important only when it is the freedom for people to do what is disagreeable to others.
She had found something disagreeable in a story I'd written in the Listener about John before his death (unusually, for most find their objections to be more than singular).
What do we imagine they are like, these disagreeable reflections, these unflattering mirrors that our thoughts provide?
They are seldom, accordingly, disagreeable, with us, to the eye of the most cultivated taste; their singularity forms a pleasing variety to the continued succession of lawns and shrubberies which is every where to be met with; and they are regarded rather as the venerable marks of ancient splendour, than as the barbarous affectation of modern distinction. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
Most had been disagreeable, pompous windbags at best.
His unrelenting disagreeableness he sometimes tended a local bar and would throw out friends who didn't spend enough makes this account somewhat less compelling that it might have been—you can dislike someone for the length of a magazine feature, but it requires real stamina to stomach Larry Hillblom through a whole book. Overnight and Underage
He is disagreeable, difficult and completely daft.
We hope we can be agreeable and not ever become disagreeable in talking about doctrinal matters.
It was too disagreeable a reminder of those long nights in hospital when he had struggled in restless half-consciousness against irrational terrors and half-understood fears. She Closed Her Eyes
While it was already known that distilling sea water removed the salt, the process had always left a disagreeable taste.
Kordofan, whither it is imported from Darfour; and salt, from the salt mines of Boyedha; but this salt is dear, and the poor use as a substitute for it a brine, which they procure by dissolving in hot water lumps of a reddish coloured saline earth, of a bitterish, disagreeable taste, which they purchase from the Bedouins of the eastern desert; it seems to contain ochre and allum. Travels in Nubia
During this period of recovery there was a good deal of parosmia so that the odours of tobacco and coffee were intensely disagreeable.
These houses are often good, but sometimes exceedingly disagreeable from the miscellaneous nature of the occupants. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

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