unprepossessing

Example Sentences

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Short and stout, he was unprepossessing and—especially unfortunate for a connoisseur of visual art—would soon lose the use of one eye in a car accident.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Walk down an unprepossessing, fluorescent-lit hallway, with its drinking fountains and bulletin boards, following the thumping bass and happy hollering.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

The few known fish from that period are jawless and generally unprepossessing, Dr. Coates said.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

It’s a smart way of playing with scale, slowing the viewer down, under-promising and overdelivering, and perhaps there’s an echo here of Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés,” also accessed through an unprepossessing little peephole.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022

The instant his unprepossessing head emerged into daylight, sunlight, Franny took him under the shoulders and lifted him up into intimate greeting distance.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger