adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an annoying/unpleasant/nasty habit
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He had the unpleasant habit of eating with his mouth open.
an unpleasant/nasty surprise
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We don’t want any unpleasant surprises.
bad/unpleasant/horrible etc
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The smell in the shed was awful.
nasty/unpleasant
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Some tablets have a nasty taste.
strong/unpleasant/pungent/offensive etc odour
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obnoxious odours from a factory
unpleasant
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I felt a rather unpleasant sensation in my chest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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If Madreidetic's anything like as unpleasant as their language, why should I let them get away with piracy?
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He was also cynical enough to believe that any other woman might be as unpleasant to live with.
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Most predators probably have to sample and kill at least one wasp or bee before they learn to identify it as unpleasant .
extremely
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Body odour Like halitosis, body odour can be extremely unpleasant and embarrassing.
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Strangely, as lovingly as cilantro is embraced by many cooks, its unusual smell and flavor are extremely unpleasant to some.
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What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects.
more
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In so far as material conditions were more unpleasant , so human beings were more unpleasant.
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Without it, a painful 1991 for the contracting group would have been even more unpleasant .
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She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle, avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage.
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Once again, it was the insidious, unseen nature of the threat which made it even more unpleasant .
most
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Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life?
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To this day beards summon up the most unpleasant associations.
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He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant .
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Poison ivy is a most unpleasant thing to have in your rectum. 3.
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This made working conditions most unpleasant , the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
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He had a distracted, drowned look, which was most unpleasant .
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Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell.
particularly
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At least the corpse wasn't particularly unpleasant .
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There was one particularly unpleasant scene, involving John Wilkinson, one of his own backbenchers.
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I am not suggesting, he wrote, that this period was particularly unpleasant .
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I've also included the particularly unpleasant articles - sheer malevolence - written by Jehova's Witnesses.
rather
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From the only letter which survives written by William Springett, one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man.
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A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place.
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I felt that there was something, well, really rather unpleasant about him.
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The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster.
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It had something of the quality of a full-time job - a rather unpleasant one.
so
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I nearly got up ad went away out of pity, I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child.
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And the heat inside the mill would not be so unpleasant as the crippling cold endured by field-workers in winter.
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I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me.
very
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He was amazingly patient, considering how very unpleasant and uncomfortable it must have been.
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Cancellation of the project would come as a very unpleasant and unexpected outcome.
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The stench filled the street, making shopping very unpleasant , and Environmental Health Officers received numerous complaints.
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How very unpleasant it can be, she reflected, to see oneself as others see one.
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It wasn't a suggestion but a statement of fact, and privately Robbie decided he must know some very unpleasant women.
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Other children find eating very unpleasant due to their organic disorder.
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Slurry stored for any length of time undergoes anaerobic fermentation - and becomes very unpleasant when disturbed.
■ NOUN
consequence
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Avoidance Learning Avoidance learning occurs when individuals learn to avoid or escape from unpleasant consequences .
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Eventually, though, the unpleasant consequences of this decision began to appear.
experience
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With a warm fire, and a hot meal, I began to recover from my unpleasant experiences .
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They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them.
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The octopus, he discovered, could learn to distinguish such shapes and patterns and avoid those coupled with the unpleasant experience .
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It was an unusual and unpleasant experience for him to feel on the defensive with his own children.
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There is evidence that both animals and humans prefer predictable rather than unpredictable reactions even when predictability is obtained from a very unpleasant experience .
odour
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There was an unpleasant odour blowing along our road all next day.
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Local authorities in industrial Teesside received many complaints about an unpleasant odour resembling decaying fish.
side
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But it's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects.
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Banished from the official organizational history, the memory of these unpleasant side effects lingers in the form of unhealthy core beliefs.
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Other countries avoided the unpleasant side effects of reprocessing by storing the used fuel in dry stores.
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Commercial considerations presumably preclude any cruel or unpleasant side to his character.
smell
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This is generally caused by a decomposing body or bodies polluting the water and is usually accompanied by an unpleasant smell .
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Aside from the unpleasant smell , not much had changed.
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He was conscious of feeling cold in the van and of the unpleasant smell of petrol.
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In spite of the name, the flower does not have an unpleasant smell .
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He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell .
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An unpleasant smell seemed to waft from the airline bag Mary always carried to school.
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Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell .
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The source of irritation may be flies, an unpleasant smell , ticklish grooming or an unskilled rider.
surprise
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All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong's officials.
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Those who shorted McAfee, however, had an unpleasant surprise .
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Now she knew she was in for an unpleasant surprise .
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Party officials' in the towns the unpleasant surprise of losing jobs to which they had become all too comfortably accustomed.
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This will reduce the possibility of unpleasant surprises .
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Conversation with her was a series of small unpleasant surprises .
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We may be in for an unpleasant surprise .
task
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The role of disciplinarian in the family is an unpleasant task .
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Those qualities enabled Coffman to handle several unpleasant tasks .
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Is there an unpleasant task waiting to be done?
things
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Its shape did unpleasant things to the eye.
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They say unpleasant things about young people today, but I find them so helpful.
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They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney, shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor.
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Which all meant several unpleasant things .
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Says some more unpleasant things about his daughter.
truth
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Or when they refuse to face unpleasant truths , like good and evil.
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On close inspection, the unpleasant truths an organization is afraid to tell often turn out to be not all that abhorrent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an unpleasant odor
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Did she really say that? What an unpleasant person!
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Gabby had never seen two girls be so unpleasant to their mother.
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I had an unpleasant feeling that someone was following me.
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Phil and Jane argued the whole time, so it was a pretty unpleasant evening.
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Some animals give off an unpleasant odor that deters attackers.
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That man in the grocery store is always so unpleasant .
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Then Nel lost her temper and there was an extremely unpleasant scene in Kenwood's office.
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Undercooked potatoes taste unpleasant and can be harmful.
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You shouldn't have been so unpleasant to her - she was only trying to help.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No crippling Whitewater developments or unpleasant October surprises appeared.
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Obviously the girls were liable to incur unpleasant finger or hand injuries from badly aimed blows.
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Older birds are often very tough and have an unpleasant aroma; they should be avoided whenever possible.
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The engineers were located at both the home office and the construction site, with an unpleasant journey between the two places.
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What falling ill means to a cat, or any other animal, is that something unpleasant is threatening it.