Definition of Disagreeable
Disagreeable
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Related Definitions:
Agreeable,
Conformable,
Congruous,
Contrary,
Displeasing,
Exciting,
Not,
Offensive,
Or,
Repugnance,
The,
To,
Unpleasant
Disagreeable Quotations
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
John Kenneth Galbraith
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson
Disagreeable Translations
disagreeable in Hungarian is ellenszenves
disagreeable in Latin is molestus, ingratus, incommodus
disagreeable in Norwegian is ubehagelig
disagreeable in Spanish is desagradable
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