Unpleasing

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 10, 5 b.] Not pleasing; displeasing, unpleasant: a. To the senses.

c. 1480.  Henryson, Test. Cres., 338. I mak Thy voice sa cleir, vnplesand, hoir, and hace.

1595.  Shaks., John, III. i. 45. If thou … wert grim, Vgly,… Full of vnpleasing blots and sightlesse staines.

1617.  Woodall, Surg. Mate (1639), 344. It hath an unpleasing taste.

1670.  Baxter, Cure Church-Div., 169. Some of them will not take such unpleasing medicines.

1770.  Sir J. Reynolds, Disc., iii. (1778), 83. [Such] a figure … may still have a certain union of the various parts, which may contribute to make them on the whole, not unpleasing.

1797.  Dallaway, Constantinople, v. 86. A man of rank, remarkably unpleasing in his countenance and figure.

1817.  Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., X. II. 476. Each leap being accompanied by a note that is far from unpleasing.

1867.  Lady Herbert, Cradle L., i. 15. Instruments which sounded unpleasing to English ears.

  b.  To the mind or feelings.

1533.  Bellenden, Livy, IV. ii. (S.T.S.), II. 57. Ȝe wald defend sic thingis vnder coloure of ȝoure rigorus & vnplesand lawis.

1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., V. ii. 912. Cuckow, Cuckow: O word of feare, Vnpleasing to a married eare.

1605.  Gunpowder Plot, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), III. 5. I thought it would not be unpleasing unto thee to join them together in the press.

1654.  Gataker, Disc. Apol., 43. These Digressions … will not be unpleasing to a Reader of no over-rigid and unpleasant Disposition.

1735.  Johnson, Lobo’s Abyssinia, Descr., xv. 140. To put the unpleasing Remembrance of our past Labours out of our Minds.

1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., ix. The first thing which recalled him to those unpleasing circumstances.

1885.  Manch. Exam., 6 July, 4/6. The appointment in itself must be unpleasing to the English Government.