Unpleasantness

[UN-¹ 12.] The quality of being unpleasant. (Also with a and pl.)

1548.  Elyot, Iniucunditas, vnpleasauntnesse.

1594.  O. B., Quest. Profit. Concern., K 3 b. I stand in very little neede … to haue these vnpleasantnesses renued or made lasting vnto me.

1596.  Barrough, Meth. Physick, VIII. 461. So great inconuenience and vnpleasauntnesse of tast.

1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1156. The Mathematical rudiments which children be taught, at the beginning trouble them…; but this unpleasantnesse continueth not alwaies with them.

1635.  J. Swan, Spec. M., vi. § 2 (1643), 201. Sea-water … by passing through divers windings … of the earth, is deprived of all unpleasantnesse.

a. 1665.  Goodwin, Filled with the Spirit (1670), 394. Which would occasion a great disparagement and unpleasantness in the World.

1808.  L. Murray, Eng. Gram., I. 455. Here there is some degree of harshness and unpleasantness [in the rhythm].

1830.  Wordsw., in C. Wordsw., Mem. (1851), II. 226. Another unpleasantness arose from the same cause.

1852.  Dickens, Bleak Ho., xlv. I have made some advances out of pocket to accommodate these unpleasantnesses.