unpleasant situation

collocation in English

meaningsofunpleasantandsituation

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unpleasant
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈplez.ənt/us
/ʌnˈplez.ənt/
not enjoyable ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofunpleasantandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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When it comes time to fire people, business has produced more than enough doublespeak to deal with theunpleasantsituation.
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We must work our way through thisunpleasantsituation.
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However, the odds against the country recovering without a veryunpleasantsituationdeveloping seem to me to be very small indeed.
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Everyone emphasises the need for national unity in order to overcome the presentunpleasantsituation.
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It was just a recognition of an extraordinary and mostunpleasantsituation.
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And that is immediately giving rise to an acutelyunpleasantsituation, but let's take a look at what has happened.
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Naturally, this is a veryunpleasantsituationfor these citizens, and we must come up with a solution and an answer.
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That is anunpleasantsituationthat faces a person of moderate means.
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He offers no solution to those of us in a veryunpleasantsituation.
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We are in a different, changed andunpleasantsituationwhere the levels of employment are concerned.
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This is a perfectly sensible way out of what could be anunpleasantsituation.
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I cannot imagine any moreunpleasantsituationthan to be a person so frozen.
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A very nasty,unpleasantsituationcould result.
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So far no scheme has been produced that would allow us to escape from theunpleasantsituationof not having the proper quantity of feeding-stuffs for our poultry.
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If the general expenditure were really cut down, it would subject this country to social stresses of such severity that we might have a veryunpleasantsituation.
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It will be a veryunpleasantsituation.
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It was anunpleasantsituation.
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Less often, bolting is a deliberate disobedience by a horse that wishes to rid itself of a handler or avoid anunpleasantsituation.
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How can she get out of thisunpleasantsituation?
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