How To Use Unpleasing In A Sentence
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Some years ago her mother decided that her face would crack the painting in two if it were painted because she was so unpleasing to the eye.
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For the mention of Asa brought rather unpleasingly before him the stocky and decidedly not well-groomed figure of his younger brother, whom he had not seen in so many years.
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Himself a rational pleasurist; as being much too wise to be ashamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterized, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)
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The difference between how we are seen and how we want to be seen, can be unpleasingly large…
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be shamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterised, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.
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Still, it's great to hear her croon her way through many of the other tracks, some fairly forgettable but not entirely unpleasing love songs.
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Almost half of all planning applications for wind farms capable of generating 5MW to 15MW are refused planning approval because of their unpleasing visual impact on the landscape.
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I slog tonight so that the next day's slog will seem marginally less Sisyphean - and so the Teachout Museum, also known as my living room, won't look unpleasingly messy when I stroll through it in the morning on the way to the shower.
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No, the face wasn't unpleasing - it was just unfamiliar.
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Over-detailed political memoirs were frowned upon as being both rather treacherous and unpleasingly venal.
Times, Sunday Times
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A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
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Religion determined politics because the most important thing in most lives was eternal salvation, and communities were reluctant to tolerate forms of belief unpleasing to God.
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A few minutes later the girl's doctor walked in with an unpleasing look in his eyes.
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The idea of word limits with inbuilt and unpleasing penalties is particularly piquant to a print critic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov'd from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz'd, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)
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Bleu Jour's is a fairly trad PC in a not unpleasing cube shape, but we still have standardised components in the shape of a full height 5.25 in bay and space for twin 3.5in drives.
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She thought their faces showed an unpleasing mixture of Dutch and 'Kalmuck,' or Mongol, and 'moreover they look heavy, dull and frightened and are not at all prepossessing.
Royal Comedy
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Alone in my bedroom with me, K'ohna inhaled deeply, causing her clothing to move in a way which was not unpleasing to the eye, the wrinkles upon the thin cloth smoothing out against her slightly curvaceous figure.
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Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham’d of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov’d from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz’d, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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Oh… well you are winning in an aesthetically unpleasing way.
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A few years ago, when MP3's were becoming big, Neil Young said that music had become sonically unpleasing to the ear.
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Neither could she approve his striped pyjamas, coarse and unpleasing in contrast to Maman's ribboned cambric nightdress.
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But the Egyptian sculptures at Wilton were unusual, and most contemporary collectors of Greco-Roman marbles would have considered such works barbarous and unpleasing.
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The Suite in E minor, BWV 996, is less successful, the thicker texture producing an unpleasingly muddy effect.
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It gets the round headlamps that everyone associates with a Jeep, and lines that are not nearly as unpleasing as the boxy Volvo-esque lines of its predecessor.
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I was talking about Michael Moore, who just so happens to be, err, unpleasingly plump.
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The surprise of the Lord Keeper was scarcely less unpleasing at the duplication of the expected arrival; his mind misgave him strangely.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Yes, my name is Briton, they supposedly conceived me there, kinda a gross story, the thought of my parents doing it is quite disgusting and unpleasing to my stomach.
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Such piety is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction.
Euthyphro
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They come as a collection of discordant but not unpleasing tastes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final movements weren't unpleasing, either: muscular and sprightly, yet not grating.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whites, miles from any danger, panicked during the riots and don't want to experience that unpleasing emotion again.
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The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
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A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
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Overall, though, music reproduction is clear and not unpleasing.
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“We appeal to you, O readers of the sacred books, not to hearken to their contents with weariness and disdain for what seems to be their unpleasing method of narration” (“Deprecamur vos, O auditores sacrorum voluminum, non cum taedio vel fastidio ea quae leguntur, audire pro eo quod minus delectabilis eorum videtur esse narratio”); cp.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
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That first teacher was Barile, a coarse and unpleasing man, as well as an incapable one; but he was fair minded, after a fashion, and put Andrea into the way of finding better help.
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The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified.
Rattlin the Reefer
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But it represents an opportunity to change the opinion that much affordable new housing is both unpleasing and poky.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overall, a not unpleasing design that's maybe a tad on the flashy side for me, but that's a matter of personal taste, and it clearly makes sense for Sendo to position it at the geeky end of the market.
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A white powder of a faint and not unpleasing savour," says he; and that, as you know, is nothing like cantharides, which is green, intensely acrid, and burning.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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While manufacturers may come up with a drink or capsule containing sodium bicarbonate, it is unpleasing to many palates.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere it is a similarly depressing story of industrial sheds, ugly roundabouts, sprawling car parks and aesthetically unpleasing supermarkets.
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The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
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Such piety, is the salvation of families and states, just as the impious, which is unpleasing to the gods, is their ruin and destruction.
EUTHYPHRO
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She was a fair-featured, blondish woman, originally not unpleasing of appearance, but now with lines all deepened and hardened as on the faces of men who have endured much weather-beat.
CHAPTER 20