unprepossessing

Example Sentences

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In the interim, however, this technology comes to us wrapped in some unprepossessing, temporized designs, like this fat-bellied seal in a plastic waistcoat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

Walk down an unprepossessing, fluorescent-lit hallway, with its drinking fountains and bulletin boards, following the thumping bass and happy hollering.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

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

Bizarrely, once in bankruptcy Hertz became a meme stock, favored by denizens of internet message boards despite its unprepossessing condition.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2021

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