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
I want it, in part, because it’s so unlovely or neglected.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022
A hope emerged that building new towns might be an alternative for unlovely and unloved city neighborhoods and for soulless peripheral subdivisions.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021
I know it’s hard to pronounce, foreign, unlovely to those who don’t understand—a peculiar jumble of unmatched consonants.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
