unprepossessing
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The new Madring street circuit is in an unprepossessing location, snaking around an exhibition centre near the Spanish capital's international airport, about a 15-minute drive from the city with no traffic.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Pepys thought of himself as a ladykiller, but one doubts many women found him attractive—Pepys was an unprepossessing 5 feet 1 inch tall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
The few known fish from that period are jawless and generally unprepossessing, Dr. Coates said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
It’s a smart way of playing with scale, slowing the viewer down, under-promising and overdelivering, and perhaps there’s an echo here of Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés,” also accessed through an unprepossessing little peephole.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022
Sometimes the unprepossessing farmer with his filthy coveralls is actually an enormously rich man with a four-thousand-acre spread, and sometimes the teenager is coming back later with Mom and Dad.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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