adv. (UN-1 11.)
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. Rom., 34. Let him, that hath, gyue hym some thyng, not louryngly and vnpleasantly,… but euen as one that rekeneth al he hath commen.
1551. Bp. Gardiner, Explic., Christes Presence, 70 b. If fleshe did appeare, we should be vnpleasauntly disposed to the communion of it.
1677. Grew, Anat. Fruits, iv. § 6. A White Corin, without taking off the Skin, sheweth not unpleasantly how the Seeds are fastned.
1718. Digby, in Pope, Wks. (1751), VIII. 34. We don’t live unpleasantly in primitive simplicity and good-humour.
1818. Byron, Juan, I. ccxx. You’ve pass’d your youth not so unpleasantly.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., iv. The lane was becoming unpleasantly slippery.
Comb. 1804. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Gt. Cry. To Pitt, Machinery which has contracted a most unpleasantly-looking rust.
