unlovely

Example Sentences

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It made for an unlovely municipal symbol, soaring but hardly graceful: the 800-foot-tall Soviet-era television tower that was for decades a familiar signature in the skyline of Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

One of the two optimistic stories goes under the unlovely name of the “nonlinear Phillips curve.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

“Without the unlovely P.C. code phrases, ‘white supremacy,’ ‘patriarchal domination’ and ‘self-recovery,’ hooks couldn’t write a sentence,” Wallace wrote.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021

A hope emerged that building new towns might be an alternative for unlovely and unloved city neighborhoods and for soulless peripheral subdivisions.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2021

The Puritan service seemed to her as plain and unlovely as the bare board walls of the Meeting House.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare