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Collocations for unpleasant - adj.

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste
become, get, turn
Things started to get unpleasant when the police were called.
make sth
He may make life unpleasant for the rest of us.
find sb/sth
I found the atmosphere in there extremely unpleasant.

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ADVERB

extremely, fairly, very, etc.
decidedly, deeply, distinctly, downright, highly, most, particularly
His clothes smelled most unpleasant.
thoroughly
a thoroughly unpleasant man
not altogether, not entirely
The overall feeling was a strange mixture of sensations, not altogether unpleasant.
a little, slightly, etc.

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PREPOSITION

for
tests which are unpleasant for patients
to
He was very unpleasant to my friends.

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Unpleasant is used with these nouns:
character, consequence, encounter, episode, fact, incident, manner, memory, odour, reality, scene, sensation, side effect, situation, smell, stench, surprise, symptom, task, taste, truth

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