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unpleasantly

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Etymology

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From unpleasant +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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unpleasantly (comparative more unpleasantly, superlative most unpleasantly)

  1. In an unpleasant manner.
    • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 17:
      The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.

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