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
The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
