late unpleasantness
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A recent war, especially (historical) the American Civil War.
Example Sentences
- "It is unlikely that anyone with significant knowledge of the Army or the late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia, upon reading these two sentences, would respond other than with a scatological barnyard expletive or some more genteel utterance representing the same level of acceptance."