unprepossessing
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In the interim, however, this technology comes to us wrapped in some unprepossessing, temporized designs, like this fat-bellied seal in a plastic waistcoat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The second floor includes her unprepossessing but charming early sculpture: the “Bottle People Series,” modest glass bottles humanized with headdresses and such, made in 1997, while she was at The Cooper Union.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Walk down an unprepossessing, fluorescent-lit hallway, with its drinking fountains and bulletin boards, following the thumping bass and happy hollering.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023
It’s a smart way of playing with scale, slowing the viewer down, under-promising and overdelivering, and perhaps there’s an echo here of Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant Donnés,” also accessed through an unprepossessing little peephole.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2022
This gives an accurate indication of Hooke’s intellectual standing at the time, as well as an idea of his unprepossessing appearance.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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