Or just Black Ducks that will be unpleasant to deal with but dealt with regardless?
Friendliness can mean different things to different people, and certainly what seems like a welcoming town to some can be unpleasant to others.
In older children and adults whooping cough is said to be unpleasant but does not usually lead to serious complications.
"There are going to be unpleasant surprises, you're going to find that an institution or so has problems and, when they do have problems, you work to deal with it, " he said, adding that handling the matter occupied much of his weekend.
So one of the first tasks faced by Mr Karamanlis will be to convey that awkward and unpleasant truth to his ethnic kin on Cyprus.
The minister said a group would be set-up to review the report and the issue was one that, although unpleasant, needed to be brought to light.
Yet Bush's resoluteness aside, there are people like Robert Gordon, president of investment firm Twenty-First Securities, musing that when it comes to taxes, the news from now on is likely to be unpleasant.
Look for more paralysis impacting the stock market down and the bond market up, as interest rates decline as a leading indicator of a slowdown that is bound to be unpleasant for everyone but the super-rich.
When the individuals heard dissonance, areas of their limbic systems known to be responsible for unpleasant emotion lit up and, moreover, the volunteers used negative adjectives to describe their feelings.
If a project is important to the firm (much less an existential issue), someone will want to do it, because even if the project is unpleasant, it builds credibility to be associated with important efforts.
In this business surprises tend to be of the unpleasant kind.
Being forced to submit to a privacy-rending body scan or pat-down - unpleasant as it may be - is not likely to compare to the trauma that can flow from being forced to submit to showering or sharing a bunkroom with someone who finds you sexually attractive.
Instead of trying to alleviate some of the uncomfortable and unpleasant emotions you feel by "trying to be positive, " try being negative instead.
In both cases what look at first sight to be damaging symptoms caused by an infection are actually adaptive (though unpleasant) responses to it.
At one time, it was considered a prestigious place to be buried but in later years it was so over used that it became an unpleasant place to spend any time.
Whooping cough in older people can be an unpleasant illness, but does not usually lead to serious complications.
This means that eventually I may not even be able to eat the most basic of foods required to maintain an acceptable level of health free of unpleasant and distressing allergic reactions.
Tegryn Jones, director of Keep Wales Tidy, said dog fouling was an unpleasant problem and now dog owners needed to be aware that they faced tougher action.
The painful truth for Britain is that a Greek default that precipitated big losses on loans to Ireland, Portugal and Spain would be immensely unpleasant for the UK's supersized banks - and, by implication, for British taxpayers too.
It just seemed to be a case of people being flustered in an unpleasant and dangerous situation.
Navigating the conditions we find ourselves in can be unpleasant at best, and at worst, it can cause one to feel anxious, depressed, hopeless, fearful, and ineffectual.
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Confrontation can be unpleasant, or it can simply mean authentically and honestly meeting something face to face.
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There are plenty of factors that can make shopping an unpleasant experience, and any effort to counteract that will always be appreciated.
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Unpleasant as it will be for the voters, a recession alone looks insufficient to turn any of Mr Cardoso's potential rivals into an election winner.
In adults, C. difficile infection is associated with diarrhea and unpleasant side effects, and while babies don't seem to be as affected by the bacteria, the presence of C. difficile could push out the Escherichia and Shigella that are so critical to developing a strong and healthy immune system.
The second, equally unpleasant bit of terminology the markets will be looking out for is whether the purchases are going to be "sterilised" or "unsterilised".
General Admission tickets for the infield have always been the easiest and cheapest way to go, but it can be really hot, really sunny, really crowded and somewhat unpleasant unless you love a Spring Break atmosphere.
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Simpson case shift from technical DNA evidence to gruesome details of the murders, Judge Lance Ito warned the jurors they would be looking at unpleasant photographs.
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