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/dˌɪsəgrˈiəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Disagreeable adj.

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable. "Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto."

Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant. "That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree."

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Etymology of 'Disagreeable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disagreeable" Quotes from Famous Books

... it'll never do to encourage it—never! I'm principled about this matter," said she, turning to Miss Ophelia; "you'll find the necessity of it. If you encourage servants in giving way to every little disagreeable feeling, and complaining of every little ailment, you'll have your hands full. I never complain myself—nobody knows what I endure. I feel it a duty to bear it ...

— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... your cure for disagreeable people, Miss MacFarlane?" I heard him ask under his breath as ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... on what proved to be the most disagreeable stage of my illness. McMeekin called on me in the morning. He performed some silly tricks with a stethoscope and felt my pulse with an air of rapt attention which did not in the least deceive me. Then he intimated that I might sit up ...

— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham

... from my earliest infancy," said Denis, "treasured and loved. They used to give me cinnamon when I had a cold—quite useless, but not disagreeable. One poured it drop by drop out of narrow bottles, a golden liquor, fierce and fiery. On the label was a list of its virtues, and among other things it was described as being in the highest degree carminative. I adored the word. 'Isn't it carminative?' I used to say to myself ...

— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley

... systematically favourable to her northern neighbour. But above all, Austria-Hungary renders to Germany the inestimable service both of 'civilizing'—that is, of 'Germanizing'—the inferior races, the Slavs, and of keeping them in check. It is a very disagreeable and difficult task, which Germany infinitely prefers to leave to Austria rather than to assume herself. And it is a task for which, as Professor Lamprecht, the national historian, is compelled to admit, the Austrian German seems far more qualified than the Prussian ...

— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

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