Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: I'll quote from them until I find something disagreeable.

Modifies a noun

• odor: As the leaves when bruised give out a disagreeable odor, they are not spontaneously eaten by animals, who quickly refuse them.

• people: It killed a good many disagreeable people who troubled the hearthstone at one time or another.

• thing: On an earlier occasion, Bridge had had other disagreeable things to say about Walton's music.

• man: Sir George was a patient if disagreeable man who managed to ingratiate himself with Charles II after the Restoration.

• consequence: Any of these alternatives seems to involve disagreeable consequences.

• task: In June 1745 he had the disagreeable task of bringing Cdr.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Democracy, on the other hand, is plagued by the rather disagreeable situation that it's one long row about everything.

• very: I must make myself very disagreeable, or she would not have said such a thing to an old friend.

• so: I never saw you look so disagreeable, so unjust, so almost vindictive before.

• not: The country, tho not disagreeable, soon becomes wild and barren, but not without some fertile spots and pieces of wood land.

• however: Yet however disagreeable such works seem from a modern point of view, it is imperative that they are not ignored.

• utterly: Fact Completely and utterly disagreeable in every way shape and form apparantly!

Used with adjective complement

• find: There are things in here that I found disagreeable not the least of which is the overuse of Neptune.

• become: Joe will get hyper and become very disagreeable as part of his reaction to dairy.

• prove: In some cases stewed apples will agree perfectly well, while raw ones prove disagreeable.