unsightly

Example Sentences

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And while the Eagles rode the maneuver to a Super Bowl, the rest of the league found it so aggravating and unsightly that certain teams pushed unsuccessfully last year to ban it from the game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

To wrap a basketball, for example, you’d need to crumple the paper in a horrible mess or cut many pieces and tape them together with unsightly overlaps.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

Instead, there was clear evidence of extraction, where the earth had been dug up, leaving behind an unsightly landscape.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025

After Stafford took over, the Rams led 14-9 with enough momentum to carry them to a stirring if fairly unsightly victory.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

There was an unsightly creature in leather pants burrowing holes beneath the foundations with no apparent regard for the fairy commandments.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer