unpicturesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle".
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011
"My group�just some unpicturesque businessmen who want to make money�has put up $500,000 to make it go."
From Time Magazine Archive
The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
On those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What a churlish idea it was to erect these barricades, Miss Dill!" said Stapylton as he seated himself at her side; "how unpicturesque and how prudish!"
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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