The word 'unpleasantness' is correct and commonly used in written English to refer to something that is uncomfortable, unenjoyable, or unpleasant in nature.
It can be used to describe a situation, feeling, or experience. Example: The trip had its fair share of unpleasantness, from delayed flights to bad weather and lost luggage.
Such constraints may be in themselves unpleasant; but a good parent, lover or friend will not take that unpleasantness as reason to regret the special relationship they stem from (Owens 2012).
This was a deliberate course of conduct designed to create unpleasantness and to harass and distress".
The tournament that was supposed to eradicate cynical fouls and general unpleasantness ended with Codesal surrounded by protesting losers.
If freedom of expression sometimes appears to have been hijacked in order to unleash the worst of anti-immigrant or anti-Muslim unpleasantness, that is not relevant.
Iraq has now smoothed over the airline unpleasantness with a $500m deal and promised to maintain borders as mandated by the United Nations.Saudi Arabia, unrepresented in Baghdad since 2003 as a sign of its disdain for Iraq's Shia-dominated government, recently broke the ice by appointing a non-resident ambassador.
Each time Dutch television showed the king and queen smiling in the stands in Sochi, one had a nagging feeling that they were there to atone for all the diplomatic unpleasantness and to safeguard Dutch commercial interests.For the Dutch public, the speed-skating victories seemed to dissolve the tension.
This crime wave was one important reason why the ownership and production of guns did not fall away after the "late unpleasantness between the states", as some Southerners put it.Another reason was that attitudes towards guns had already begun to change before the war began.
In other words, very good at killing people.Many if not most of our products offer not some supplemental happiness, but release from some unpleasantness.
The many inconveniences that plague the human body alone keep a large industry of product-makers in profit, and an equally large number of marketing-copy writers busy talking around them.The ways marketers manage to get their point across without mentioning the unpleasantness in question offer a school of euphemism in miniature.
Only one notable unpleasantness marked Samoa's politics in Malietoa's time, the murder of a minister of public works in 1999, allegedly to prevent him from revealing the details of a corruption scandal.
In "Dallas", an American soap opera, viewers envied the Ewing family's luxury, but were repelled by its unpleasantness.
