unpleasing

From Middle English un-plesyng, equivalent to un- +‎ pleasing.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpliːzɪŋ/

unpleasing (comparative more unpleasing, superlative most unpleasing)

1. Not pleasing; unpleasant.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v]:

     It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
     It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
     Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], chapter 13, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, OCLC 21416084:

     ‘ […] Be assured, my dear, that these were the harshest words, and to me the most unpleasing that ever escaped your lips!’

   • 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 86:

     Zander took out a silk handkerchief and vented some unpleasing odour from his mouth.