How to Use unlovely in a Sentence

unlovely

adjective

• Sunday night is often spoiled by the unlovely thought of having to go back to school or work the next morning.
• Two years later, he is gone, though the movie spares us the unlovely particulars of his end.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022
• The parking lot was madness, the exterior was unlovely, and the back deck was heaven.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• But the new Indian ambition still has a strident and unlovely side.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
• The elevator shafts were starting to emerge when the lockdown hit, two unlovely stubs of concrete growing out of the foundation.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• Many were aghast at BMW i division’s fractal styling themes, embodied in the unlovely time-travelers iX and i7.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
• And not the pretty, picture-postcard ones, either, but those in the unlovely, lively outer neighborhoods.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
• Lupe's unlovely appearance and McKinnon's sassy attitude make the loyal goat the best character in the movie.
  — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• The characters, all animals, have an unlovely, hard-plastic sheen.
  — Jane Horwitz, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• David Longstreth makes music in a former cabinet-builder’s workshop on the east side of Los Angeles, in an unlovely, industrial part of town.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• Stuart writes beautifully, with marvelous attunement to the poetry in the unlovely and the mundane.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
• The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain, a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
• The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain — a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• The particular atmosphere of unlovely Belleville is deftly conveyed … yet there is beauty here too.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Michaela itself is housed in an unlovely gray office block opposite a London Underground train station.
  — Flora Carr, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
• The American university today has, bizarrely, become a place dominated by anger, fear, and self-loathing, all wrapped in an unlovely cloak of self-righteousness.
  — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Communiqués that emerge from these secret meetings are written in unlovely party jargon.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Fueled by alcohol and believing her seductive charms are still alive and well, Leslie works it hard, and Riseborough is fearless in the unlovely desperation that emerges.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
• Of the two streets, Second Avenue, an unlovely jumble of tenements and postwar apartment buildings, seems the less-likely candidate for retail role model.
  — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
• Today South Wales is battered and neglected, its lovely countryside studded with some unlovely towns.
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• These include a cluster in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of windswept deserts, grasslands and unlovely industrial towns.
  — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
• Over the past 13 years, the glamor category has been handily beating unlovely value, the longest period in history for which what's supposed to be the market's bargain basement has lagged.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• Baker portrays Texas City as an unlovely cluster of neighborhoods pinned to the Gulf Coast by a collection of oil refineries, a place where even the potential prettiness of the waterfront is colored by grim history.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024