unbeautiful

Example Sentences

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Their sound was sometimes, I assume deliberately, harsh and unbeautiful.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2021

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

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

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2016

He and Nefertiti are both given long, thin, unbeautiful faces in their joint portraits.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2015

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