Example Sentences

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Faced now with Patsy P. in all her unloveliness, Annie is moved nearly to tears at her own life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

I love to be a little disgusting, to go as far as I can into the thrilling unloveliness of an elderwoman’s aging.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016

William Hesketh Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in a three-story brick building the natural unloveliness of which was later emphasized by the addition of an extremely inappropriate bay-window.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite her unloveliness, Katherine respected her deeply, for in other days Elsie had told her sister-in-law’s story.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.

Everywhere men delved in dirt and murk, and all unloveliness.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin