as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
strip-mining leaves an unsightly gash in the landscape
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Recent Examples of unsightly
Looking listless from the opening, the Sharks allowed five goals in the first period and never recovered in an unsightly 8-1 loss to the Lightning at Amalie Arena.
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Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
And don‘t fret about unsightly machinery crowding you space.
—Taylore Glynn, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
Vegetables: Both sides are admirably grinding through unsightly starts.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Crow poop creates an unsightly and unsanitary mess in the economic heart of the city.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
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Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
And don‘t fret about unsightly machinery crowding you space.
—Taylore Glynn, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
Vegetables: Both sides are admirably grinding through unsightly starts.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Crow poop creates an unsightly and unsanitary mess in the economic heart of the city.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unsightly
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsightly
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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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“Unsightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsightly. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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