as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an unattractive, awkward baby bird
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Recent Examples of unattractive
Autumn pruning helps manage foliar diseases and beautifies the landscape, as peony foliage tends to turn black and unattractive in winter.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
To make the European market unattractive for Chinese EV exporters, tariffs have to be as high as 50%, according to research group Rhodium.
—Sonia Heng, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
Not showing me as completely broken and unattractive at the beginning was important to the arc.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
The through line in these missteps, as Smith sees it, is selfishness, which is an unattractive trait in any workplace.
—Morgan Smith, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2024
To make the European market unattractive for Chinese EV exporters, tariffs have to be as high as 50%, according to research group Rhodium.
—Sonia Heng, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
Not showing me as completely broken and unattractive at the beginning was important to the arc.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
The through line in these missteps, as Smith sees it, is selfishness, which is an unattractive trait in any workplace.
—Morgan Smith, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unattractive
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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His users are the ones that will suffer the most when the platform gets uglier.Scott Nover, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
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His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.SI.com, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Newsom has ordered an investigation, but this looks like grotesque mismanagement.The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
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Where the r-slur is concerned, one recalls Trump’s grotesque imitation in 2015 of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital joint condition.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Unattractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unattractive. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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