Sentence examples for downright unpleasant from inspiring English sources

The lyrics are spiteful and raw, and sometimes downright unpleasant.

In my experience, reading or watching Shakespeare is, by turns, baffling, tiring, frustrating and downright unpleasant.

Some of the most well-meaning people collaborate — faute de mieux — and some of the bravest resisters are downright unpleasant.

Unfortunately, the test failed because most ranged from the vapid to the downright unpleasant – and they were expensive.

Nobody, I hope, would argue that public figures should have to put up with any abuse that can be thrown at them, however defamatory, offensive or downright unpleasant.

One or two are downright unpleasant, like the young female bartender who refuses to visit her dying mother for reasons that are never explained.

I have flown Spirit Airlines at least a dozen times, because it's unquestionably the cheapest US airline if you manage to avoid its plethora of fees – but my experiences have ranged from generally unpleasant to downright infuriating.

"It can be quite unpleasant and downright disturbing at times to play, really," she says.

Random unpleasant and downright embarrassing things happen.

But Dennis, like his contemporary, Vito Acconci, for a few years indulged what by the day's conventions were "unaesthetic," "unpleasant," "monotonously uninviting," downright gritty visual and oral presentations and signage that, despite expectation, overrode the work's initial alienation.

It'd be uncomfortable, unpleasant and sometimes downright shocking.