as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
strip-mining leaves an unsightly gash in the landscape
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Recent Examples of unsightly
Protect your appliances or cookware from these unsightly blemishes.
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
Across its last 15 games, Houston is shooting an uncomfortable 27.5 percent from the field in clutch minutes, with an unsightly minus-28.9 net rating in that span.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Alleviate Performance Compression Socks Everyone’s heard doctors recommend compression socks for long-haul flights, but doubtless most travelers dismiss them as inconvenient and unsightly.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
The unsightly and disease breeding accumulations of winter cannot be removed too soon.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unsightly
Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
Across its last 15 games, Houston is shooting an uncomfortable 27.5 percent from the field in clutch minutes, with an unsightly minus-28.9 net rating in that span.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Alleviate Performance Compression Socks Everyone’s heard doctors recommend compression socks for long-haul flights, but doubtless most travelers dismiss them as inconvenient and unsightly.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 7 Feb. 2025
The unsightly and disease breeding accumulations of winter cannot be removed too soon.
—Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsightly
Adjective
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The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).—
Evan Sidery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 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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When the youth miracle drug turns to body horror, Moore becomes the decaying mutation called Gollum, made to look like a slow-progressing disease, while Moore and her younger incarnation (played by Margaret Qualley), merge into the hideous Monstro.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
2 Mar. 2025
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But the idea of a woman who is kind of crippled, or is struggling physically, to have the one and only thing that is supporting her, kicked out from underneath her is so vile and hideous.—
Maelle Beauget-Uhl,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Her being nominated for playing a grotesque has-been is, at the very least, a delicious irony.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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The grotesque high point: the meat dress, complete with an uncooked meat cap and shoes. 20 of pop culture's most showstopping red dresses Best Picture mix-up (2017 Oscars) And the Oscar goes to…absolute chaos!—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Unsightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsightly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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