unsightliness

Example Sentences

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It’s a placement that I think is fairly unique to Tern, and it avoids the unsightliness of a bulging battery pack perched on the downtube.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2021

Oahu, on the other hand, has invested heavily in wind power, despite concerns from community members about the noise and what they perceive as the unsightliness of the massive blades.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2019

It isn’t feasible that the longest postseason drought in American sports can double in unsightliness over the next decade or two?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2018

The condition of the Redskins’ home field has been a source of controversy and late-season unsightliness for years.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2017

With the profession as well as public opinion against him—for the most frightful stories were abroad respecting the dangers, the unsightliness, and the nuisance which the locomotive would create—Stephenson held to his purpose. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel