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

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