2 Verbs to Use for the Word unpleasant

It is scenes like this, of which ladies of my country and my state complained in their petitions, some time since, as rendering this District unpleasant, should they visit the capital of the nation as wives, sisters, daughters, or friends of members of Congress.

But his first words gave her an unpleasant shockshe felt for all the world as if somebody had suddenly turned a shower of ice-cold water on her.

2 Verbs to Use for the Word  unpleasant