as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an unattractive, awkward baby bird
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Recent Examples of unattractive
Although domestic demand for these goods remains strong, bringing this sector back to the United States is both politically empty and economically unattractive.
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Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, public exits are becoming increasingly difficult and unattractive, analysts tell Axios.
—Natalie Breymeyer, Axios, 15 Apr. 2025
Investors face weak incentives: the existence of other storage solutions and absence of a capacity market have made BESS projects financially unattractive.
—María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
The commencement speech is an increasingly unattractive gig to many high-profile speakers, said David Murray, the executive director of the Professional Speechwriters Association.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, public exits are becoming increasingly difficult and unattractive, analysts tell Axios.
—Natalie Breymeyer, Axios, 15 Apr. 2025
Investors face weak incentives: the existence of other storage solutions and absence of a capacity market have made BESS projects financially unattractive.
—María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
The commencement speech is an increasingly unattractive gig to many high-profile speakers, said David Murray, the executive director of the Professional Speechwriters Association.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unattractive
Adjective
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My goodness, these men wanted to win the U.S. Open with every bit of their being, to finally win a major championship and make this ugly, rainy day worth the battles behind them.—
Brody Miller,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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The beautiful game deserves better than to be played against a backdrop of ugly anti-human rights policies.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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There are no save-the-cat redemptions for a man who became famous for torturing, murdering and performing hideous experiments on countless Jews as part of a team of doctors overseeing medical services at Auschwitz-Birkenau.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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But Eleanor has backed herself into an awful corner, and in some ways, so too has Johansson’s film, which is stuck trying to impart sage wisdom through the lens of a truly hideous (if well-meaning) lie.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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The gore may have felt too grotesque to shoot in live action using makeup and prosthetics, and potentially unbearable for some audiences to watch.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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If, like for me, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 fairy tale about a girl who stumbles into Wonderland is a core memory, all those beloved characters are there, with a splendidly cogent (and at times delightfully grotesque) libretto.—
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2025
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“Unattractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unattractive. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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