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Definition of Unpleasant
Unpleasant

Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.

Related Definitions:
Agreeable, Amiable, Displeasing, Not, Offensive, Or, Pleasant


Unpleasant Quotations

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
David Foster Wallace

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
Walter Bagehot

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.
Francis Ford Coppola

Unpleasant Translations

unpleasant in Dutch is onaardig, honds, nurks, nors, bars
unpleasant in Latin is incommodo, ingratus
unpleasant in Spanish is desagradable, asqueroso
unpleasant in Swedish is obehaglig, otrevlig


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