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Disagreeableness

noun

The quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant.

An ill-tempered and offensive disposition.

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"Disagreeableness" Quotes from Famous Books

... become me to resent any rudeness towards either my grandfather or myself. A gentleman, before seeking intercourse with a person of your station and habits, will first consider whether the urgency of the end may compensate for the disagreeableness of the means. It does ...

— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... said, "do not visit upon me Mrs. Tracy's disagreeableness. Indeed I think you are not as patient with her as you ought to be, considering she is an old woman, and was your nurse. You were speaking ...

— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton

... now, a thought of regret that she had not ventured the disagreeableness and told her mother long ago of her interest in Evan. Mrs. Starling could take measures that her daughter could not take. If she pleased, that is; and the doubt also recurred, whether she would please. It was by no means certain; and at any rate now, in her mortification ...

— Diana • Susan Warner

... Summer will have its flies. Emerson discoursed with philosophic calm about the impediments and disagreeableness which beset every path; he also accepted them with serenity when he encountered them ...

— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson

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