Sentence examples for Slightly unpleasant from inspiring English sources

Next, participants were shown a parallel 0 20 unpleasantness scale with the following anchor descriptions: "0 = neutral," "5 = slightly unpleasant," "8 = unpleasant," "11 = very unpleasant," "16 = intolerable," and "20 = extremely distressing" [ 32].

There's also a slightly unpleasant section on Edinburgh's junkies.

"Aha, the mystery of mysteries," Mr. Fischl says with a bitter and slightly unpleasant edge.

The novel also leaves a slightly unpleasant taste in the mouth.

But it's the feel of it that startles you — it's almost billiard-ball hard, with a smoother, slightly unpleasant slipperiness under one's fingers.

For all the very right-wing, slightly unpleasant populism that the Mail trades in, its readership is actually people who know an unacceptable insult when they see it.

For example, for the scale "pleasant/unpleasant," each category corresponded to the degree of pleasantness impression as follows: 1-extremely pleasant, 2-fairly pleasant, 3-slightly pleasant, 4-moderate, 5-slightly unpleasant, 6-fairly unpleasant, and 7-extremely unpleasant.

But in the spirit of friendly correction — or, O.K., maybe curmudgeonly annoyance — let me point out some slightly more unpleasant truths about the future that liberalism seems to be winning.

Meanwhile, Google too quickly yanked the iKamasutra app from the Google Play Store, and the end result was only slightly less unpleasant.

Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may have given his successor a clean slate to start with, but he also left him a slightly more unpleasant gift: the smell of cigarette smoke.

That's what this smells like". Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may have given his successor a clean slate to start with, but he also left him a slightly more unpleasant gift: the smell of cigarette smoke.