disagreeably
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“Mosul or Turkey. That’s it,” he snaps disagreeably.
From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2016
“No voice would have had wing enough to rise above the uproar, and Mr. Brooke, disagreeably anointed, stood his ground no longer,” Eliot writes.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 28, 2015
He agitated the mixture with a mortar hoe, mumbling disagreeably as he worked.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2012
I discovered this right after completing the simple set-up: A weak network connection makes the player freeze and behave disagreeably, inducing frustration.
From BusinessWeek • Aug. 18, 2010
Eight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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