unbeautiful

Example Sentences

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That’s why policymakers have parking lots in their sights: They are big and unbeautiful, and covering them with solar panels doesn’t take away from anything else.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023

The movie, though elegantly framed, favors the unbeautiful, and its landscapes are littered with rusty junk.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

Why did artists combine dissimilar and often unbeautiful materials, as in a bundle-like charm made of lizard claws, fibers and beads?

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2016

If my face became deformed, I’d go from being unbeautiful to pitiable.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2016

It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov