displeasingly

As for state roads—the left-libs keep asserting that these provide a disproportionate advantage to big box retailers and other aesthetically displeasingly big firms.

Three notes for the critics of the critics of apologists for Wal-Mart 2009

The Middle Eastern nationalism of today often carries qualities of devotion and sincerity and with its content of real patriotism certainly cannot be condemned off-hand by us, whatever its occasional extravagances; but it is highly emotional, often it is displeasingly boastful, egotistical, narrow, suspicious of non-Arab outsiders, sensitive with the touchiness of adolescence to imaginary affronts.

Oil, Power Politics and the Arab Awakening 1959

And it was the effect of these last that affected Richard oddly, displeasingly, as, helped by Powell and Andrews, -- the first footman, who acted as his table-steward on board the _Reprieve_, -- he made his way slowly down to the chair, placed on the left, at the front of the box.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

My aunt winced displeasingly to my sight: 'I see nothing to astonish one.'

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868

My aunt winced displeasingly to my sight: 'I see nothing to astonish one.'

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

My aunt winced displeasingly to my sight: 'I see nothing to astonish one.'

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

The word Erpingham thrilled displeasingly through Godolphin's veins; in some measure it restored him to himself.

Godolphin, Volume 4. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

In the midst of the strange, unfamiliar emotion which his eye conveyed to his heart, Percival's ear was displeasingly jarred by the loud, bluff, hearty voice of the girl's female companion --

Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He caught at the vision of an old man with a long beard, whom he associated, displeasingly, with recollections of pain; he glanced off to a fair face, with eyes that looked tender pity whenever he writhed or groaned under the tortures that, no doubt, that old accursed carle had inflicted upon him.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

However, at his well-filled board, conversation, generally, though displeasingly to himself, turned upon politics, and I had there often listened, of late, to dark hints of the danger to which we were exposed, and of the restless machinations of the Jacobites.

Devereux — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838