unlovely

Example Sentences

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It made for an unlovely municipal symbol, soaring but hardly graceful: the 800-foot-tall Soviet-era television tower that was for decades a familiar signature in the skyline of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

One of the two optimistic stories goes under the unlovely name of the “nonlinear Phillips curve.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

The point was, Poe deserved better; the most interesting plants do grow in the shade, unlovely and unloved.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023

Even if we didn’t have measurements, this would be obvious: Gas stoves burn gas, and combustion produces carbon monoxide, fine particulate matter and other unlovely byproducts you don’t want in your house.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

Yet to no heart in all the host came any fear that the Wild Men were unfaithful, strange and unlovely though they might appear.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien