unalluring

And that’s what Rankin’s unalluring performance prevents.

"Her singing really is unalluring, though," he said.

Los Angeles has never been more unalluring than in this bleak, racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir by first-time novelist Halley Sutton, who’s a kind of #MeToo Jim Thompson.

It’s curious: Trollope seemed to specialize in drab and unalluring titles — “Framley Parsonage,” “Dr. Wortle’s School,” “The Vicar of Bullhampton” — but “The Way We Live Now” could adorn the cover of any social-realist novel of the last three centuries.

No doubt one reason Latinx art remains, as a category, unalluring to the market is that it is perceived as being both too narrow and too broad.