How to Use disagreeable in a Sentence

disagreeable

adjective
  • The medicine had a disagreeable taste.
  • I've never known her to be so disagreeable.
  • Some repel deer with a disagreeable taste, such as hot pepper.
    — Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2024
  • All the world’s a stage of hammy acting, disagreeable bosses and goofy pranks.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 July 2017
  • Why this is not revolting, or even disagreeable, is beyond me.
    — Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • And if waking up early to see shooting stars is disagreeable, why not try hearing them?
    — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 1 June 2023
  • If all this makes Wolfe sound like a disagreeable presence, nothing could be further from the truth.
    — Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 4 June 2024
  • Something in the mix left a strong aftertaste that was slightly disagreeable.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The weather was disagreeable — wet and in the low 50s — cold, by my terms, for August.
    — Kathleen Squires, latimes.com, 5 June 2017
  • Many of us can recall an era when people could disagree without being disagreeable.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • As far as non-ad content, tech companies censor certain disagreeable speech as well.
    — Alyza Sebenius, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The disagreeable object proved no match for the most fertile person in Montana.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • To him, there is nothing stranger than an introvert, nothing stranger than a disagreeable person.
    — Time, 25 Sep. 2022
  • These actions seem to declare that the despised person is not worth looking at or is disagreeable to behold.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Since then, her mother has become more disagreeable and lost some mobility.
    — Clare Ansberry, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2020
  • But will conditions finally seem disagreeable enough to spark greater action?
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Their attraction appears to be the product of the beauty and brevity of their bloom as well as the disagreeable nature of the odor.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • In this deeply conservative society, for many the idea of women taking part in such a sport is disagreeable.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Calhoun, of course, has been found to be retroactively disagreeable for his views regarding slavery.
    — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 5 May 2017
  • The sessions will help people to break down barriers and learn how to disagree without being disagreeable.
    — Hartford Courant, 10 May 2022
  • There is no need to crow about this, to brandish and proclaim other people’s mistakes to prop up our sense of self-worth—that would be priggish and disagreeable.
    — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2017
  • Glamping, as oxymoronic to me as dry swimming, is even more disagreeable than regular camping.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 26 July 2018
  • The fasting is uncomfortable, the prep is disagreeable, and the procedure itself requires you to be put to sleep.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
  • These are just a couple of the many studies that have shown polyols can be disagreeable to the gut if 20 grams or more are eaten in a single sitting.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 7 Aug. 2020
  • McDonough spent most of his time praising Kamenetz for disagreeing with him without being disagreeable.
    — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2018
  • But be prepared for the disagreeable process of replacing early-stage employees with those who are more comfortable with, and qualified for, your new scale.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The appellate judges ruled that the right of publicity cannot be a right to control an image by censoring disagreeable portrayals.
    — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • There are also a lot of people who have never dreamed of being disagreeable in public, much less considered joining a raucous social movement.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
  • March came in like a lion and remained disagreeable until its damp and dreary departure, followed by April, which until just a few days ago, seemed bent on a reprise.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • But the First Amendment does not guarantee freedom from religion or freedom from disagreeable speech.
    — WSJ, 15 May 2022

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