Sentence examples for this disagreeable from inspiring English sources

Feeling underpaid, he one day quit this disagreeable job, a decision that upset the slum's big boss, Haji Noor Muhammad and his henchmen, Mintoo and Shantoo.

So as not to oblige you to read this disagreeable letter to the end, I begin with the essential: I will not enter into co-production in your film.

Even though the heads of state bury this disagreeable object, which they will surely try to do, there is no assurance that it will stay down, or that somebody will not have caught a gleam from it on its way to the graveyard.

Given current usage, when Hitler says "We ought to bomb London" and the pacifist says "Nobody ever ought to bomb anything", the two claims contradict each other, but once Russell's reform is has been implemented this disagreeable dispute will be smoothed into non-existence.

This prevents the disagreeable stage when the elastic has sagged, but not quite enough to warrant its replacement.

Compounding this is the disagreeable notion, drawn from 19th-century race science, that brains and brawn must be inversely correlated.

Unsurprisingly, rival papers find this practice disagreeable and, sometimes, downright unacceptable.

If Jeff, with his boyish, wide-eyed stare and blank expression, personifies a spoiled contemporary man-child, Mr. Maguire makes this essentially disagreeable character almost sympathetic.

This is disagreeable to mother and baby.

Lewis's book, which annoyed Coolidge, is an extreme example of the imitative fallacy, by which an author replicates the disagreeable characteristics — in this case, self-satisfaction and verbosity — that he seeks to suggest.

And yet I cannot feel my nephew was guilty of strangling this farmer over disagreeable suppers.