unpleasant
Lights must be positioned carefully to avoid the unpleasantness of a bright light shining into your eyes.
The industry's ageing jets contribute to the general unpleasantness of air travel these days.
Both players were taken off to avoid any further unpleasantness.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Serious and unpleasant
abominable
abominably
abysmal
abysmally
apocalyptic
fraught
frightful
from hellidiom
fun
ghastliness
not be all fun and gamesidiom
noxiously
objectionable
objectionably
odious
unpleasantly
unpretty
unspeakable
unspeakably
unsupportable

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Rude and cheeky

Examples of unpleasantness

unpleasantness
No doubt some of those approached preferred not to respond, or to gloss over unpleasantness or tensions.
That is, does death itself - as opposed to any unpleasantness experienced in dying - harm an animal?
Most people experienced anxiety or frustration at the reasons for their incarceration and, sometimes, the unpleasantness of the conditions.
Examples include annoyance, behavior, communication, confrontation, discussion, ease, intervention, negativity, prejudgments, pressure, separation, supervision, tolerance, unpleasantness.
In contrast to forms of unpleasantness and adversity that are spurs to useful action, pain must restrict one's capacities in order to justify that equation.
Physiological differentiation of sensory and cognitive tasks as a function of warning processing demands and reported unpleasantness.
The switching in this case avoided any unpleasantness for my parents.
To avoid all the unpleasantness that punishment typically incurs, we could instead make public denouncements of criminal activities.
Historians have discovered a unique result of the southern circuit's unpleasantness.
So he was particularly anxious that no unpleasantness should mar the transfer of power celebrations in which he would play viceroy for the last time.
Those teachers, parents and children who oppose imperialism are still being coerced to take part, since absenteeism might lead to unpleasantness or victimisation.
So for this reason, journalism is generally and rightly associated with unpleasantness.
She could never bear 'any unpleasantness ', and it seems she gradually stopped attending church after she married, although she did send her children to church.
The response latency is the number of seconds to rate each item on a 1 - 7 scale for unpleasantness.
The perceived unpleasantness of pain also depends on its special psychological significance.
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