Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being disagreeable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
disagreeable . - noun countable A disagreeable behaviour, occurrence, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant
- noun an ill-tempered and offensive disposition
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Examples
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His disagreeableness was the one present pain, but behind it was undefined consternation, for she perceived that, at any rate, he did not think
The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Anthea and Cyril each had a private struggle with that inside disagreeableness which is part of all of us, and which is sometimes called the Old Adam -- and both were victors.
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The Charlie Brown Theory of Personality, James C Kaufman PhD posits the theory that Lucy represents "disagreeableness".
The Guardian World News Hadley Freeman 2011
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His unrelenting disagreeableness he sometimes tended a local bar and would throw out friends who didn't spend enough makes this account somewhat less compelling that it might have been—you can dislike someone for the length of a magazine feature, but it requires real stamina to stomach Larry Hillblom through a whole book.
Overnight and Underage Wayne Curtis 2012
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"The problem is, many managers often don't realize they reward disagreeableness," says Dr. Livingston.
Hey, You! Mean People Earn More, Study Finds Rachel Emma Silverman 2011
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Maybe saying, "awesome", is like spitting away bad news, debate, or any hint of disagreeableness.
Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Ixnay Communique: If Everything's So Awesome, Where Is The Love? Dr. Cheryl Pappas 2011
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Meckerei —to use a pejorative noun—can be laced with other qualities, like humor, but usually it amounts to something like shared disagreeableness, and I have written it off as a local oddity.
Berlin's Summer of Discontent J. S. Marcus in Berlin 2011
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Maybe saying, "awesome", is like spitting away bad news, debate, or any hint of disagreeableness.
Dr. Cheryl Pappas: Ixnay Communique: If Everything's So Awesome, Where Is The Love? Dr. Cheryl Pappas 2011
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UNM's Miller, for instance, complains that critics "have convinced a substantial portion of the educated public that evolutionary psychology is a pernicious right-wing conspiracy," and complains that believing in evolutionary psychology is seen "as an indicator of conservatism, disagreeableness and selfishness."
Archive 2009-07-01 JLK 2009
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UNM's Miller, for instance, complains that critics "have convinced a substantial portion of the educated public that evolutionary psychology is a pernicious right-wing conspiracy," and complains that believing in evolutionary psychology is seen "as an indicator of conservatism, disagreeableness and selfishness."
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