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

Even if we didn’t have measurements, this would be obvious: Gas stoves burn gas, and combustion produces carbon monoxide, fine particulate matter and other unlovely byproducts you don’t want in your house.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 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

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