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Meanings of unlovely in English

Without beauty or charm.

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Examples for "unpicturesque"
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It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
2
Looked back at, with the peaks rising behind, it was not unpicturesque.
The Call of the Canyon
3
It is only the unpicturesque result of an unfeminine knowledge of the law.
The Shuttle
4
And I folded my arms in an attitude not, perhaps, unpicturesque.
Police!!!
5
This buckskin costume has now been replaced by the unpicturesque calico of civilization.
Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity / Their History, Cus...
Usage of unlovely in English
1
The answer may be found in two-and-a-half mostly unlovely words: Christmas repeats.
The Irish Times
2
The mother was an unlovely object in her abject sorrow and despair.
A True Friend: A Novel
3
The overhead light on my arms and hands was severe and unlovely.
The Girls
4
She was very bony and was flat-chested and unlovely in every way.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
5
Between him and youth stood that unloved and unlovely girl in America.
The Purple Heights
6
A snatch of human song, low and unlovely, carried on the breeze.
The Irda (Children of the Stars)
7
He was a well-favored youth with an unlovely manner, haughty and cocksure.
Caleb's crossing
8
Temptation and passion had alike fled these unlovely fields and grim employment.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
9
But, established as a habit of the life, it is altogether unlovely.
Religious Education in the Family
10
Poppy surveyed the stage, unseeing, her great eyes wide with unlovely memories.
The Far Horizon
11
He was a most unlovely spectacle, but he was far from dead.
At the Earth's Core
12
The pressure of Captain Blunt's handshake had not altered its unlovely shape.
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
13
The music-themed biopic has thrown some unlovely, unwanted shapes over the years.
The Irish Times
14
Eve is unlovely, her limbs lanky, her bust mediæval, her flanks Flemish.
Promenades of an Impressionist
15
Miss Churton was so different from that unlovely mental picture of her!
Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
16
Their girls are so unlovely, and their men such absurdly fine fellows!'
John Caldigate
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