unlovely

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

From its muted, unlovely color palette to its tightly controlled performances, everything it shows us is placed in rigorous service of brilliantly cascading questions and ideas: What are the cost and value of forgiveness?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2023

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

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023

In the early 1980s, H. Gary Morse, a onetime ad man, took over his father’s mobile home park in an unlovely patch of Florida cow country.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Tears and snot ran down the boy’s unlovely face.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer