alluring

A small hatchet with which to chop off a chunk of porridge formed the accompaniment of this unalluring Arctic provender.

And from so startling and unalluring a beginning, a marriage followed.

It is cold;—and would be unalluring, were it not that as a profession it is profitable.

The work of an art tourist must at least be more attractive than the unalluring task of collecting postage-stamps and monograms.