c. 1596, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 2,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=merchantvenice&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl
O sweet Portia,
Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
That ever blotted paper!
1722, (w), (w), London: E. Nutt, p. 214,https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11537650_000
It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets (..)
(..) she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them (..)