desagradable
off-putting ; unwelcome ; unpleasant ; disagreeable ; unkind ; obnoxious ; peevish ; distasteful ; unappealing ; seamy ; unsavoury [unsavory, -USA] ; unpalatable ; unsightly ; minging ; abrasive ; nasty ; unwholesome ; insalubrious ; invidious ; ill-natured ; rotten.
Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission.
And, as if by way of indicating that he had thrown down the gauntlet, he added, 'I can be unpleasant. I warn you'.
Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
The enumeration at 940.5316: Children and other noncombatants; Pacifists; Enemy sympathizers seems a little unkind, if nothing else.
During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by 'obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil = During the war a law was passed to limit the consumption of newsprint by 'obnoxious newspapers' and even reducing it to nil.
In 1912 a group of women library students were accused of lacking a sense of proportion, being peevish and being absorbed in small details.
The physical effort of keeping tabs on people as well as the distasteful practice of checking up on staff output achieves nothing and may do considerable damage.
In addition, it is pointed out that tourists often have a strange fascination for tragic, macabre or other equally unappealing historical sights.
In general, the writer explains, crimes are depicted in such a way that they are associated with seamy characters who have little regard for conventional morality.
Despite the unsavory characters, bawdiness, and amorality in several of his plays, Middleton was more committed to a single theological system than, for example, Shakespeare.
The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
Everyone is attractive to someone, there is no such thing as a minger, but there are many people who I think are minging.
She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
Anthony Datto thanked them for having permitted him to unburden himself and after a few desultory remarks about the nasty weather and nothing in particular, they parted.
The text raises the possibility that there might be something unwholesome in the Buddhist obsession with hell.
Specific actions are those which are intended to reinforce the fight against specific medical conditions related to insalubrious living .
Within the ranks of authorship therefore there are many types of author and it is invidious to claim that one sort is necessarily 'better' than another.
Always snivelling, coughing, spitting; a stupid, tedious, ill-natured fellow, who was for ever fatiguing people.
Besides, winding up in an exclusive arrangement with a distributor that has rotten customer service ruins any advantage.
algo desagradable a la vista
a blot on the landscape
The priest is just another body, however, a dark blot on the landscape, a mere spectator who becomes transparent in the eyes of his flock.
darle a Uno escalofríos por Algo desagradable
make + Nombre + flinch
This selfish attitude of some librarians make me flinch sometimes.
de sabor desagradable
unpalatable
The article is entitled 'Spam is unpalatable any way it's served up: things you can do to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail'.
desagradable a la vista [Nombre y adjetivo]
eyesore
He argues for special attention to faculty offices, landscaping, 'green' architecture, preservation of heritage buildings, removal of eyesore buildings, and safety.
encontrarse con una sorpresa desagradable
rude awakening + be in store
be in for a rude awakening
A rude awakening may be in store when they discover that their college or university professors require them to use scholarly resources.
The incoherence of the existing norms still protects each of us in our individual spheres, but we might be in for a rude awakening.
esperar una sorpresa desagradable
rude awakening + be in store
be in for a rude awakening
A rude awakening may be in store when they discover that their college or university professors require them to use scholarly resources.
The incoherence of the existing norms still protects each of us in our individual spheres, but we might be in for a rude awakening.
lo desagradable
unpleasantness
This situation occurs when supervisors can't face the unpleasantness that might arise from an unfavorable evaluation.
situación desagradable
unpleasantness
This situation occurs when supervisors can't face the unpleasantness that might arise from an unfavorable evaluation.
sorpresa desagradable
rude awakening
Anyone who loves to be taken away by a good travel yarn will find 'Rude Awakenings' a great adventure.
