unlovely
Example Sentences
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One of the two optimistic stories goes under the unlovely name of the “nonlinear Phillips curve.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023
The point was, Poe deserved better; the most interesting plants do grow in the shade, unlovely and unloved.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023
All this takes place on an array of almost palpably unlovely Los Angeles locations, filmed here with a restless run-and-gun immediacy.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022
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
It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty—to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
