attractive
adjective
providing pleasure or delight, especially in appearance or manner; pleasing; charming; alluring.
unattractively
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a word derived from
attractive.
Example Sentences
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It’s running, but rusted, the water pooling in unattractively brackish tanks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2017
To get to the stadium, tens of thousands of fans will have to pass the Aldeia Maracanã’s ruined walls, now unattractively shielded by a 10-foot mesh fence.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2014
In one of the unpublished manuscripts, Williams wrote of playwrights as "those unattractively awkward, embarrassed, graceless, blushing, fidgeting, shuffling, stammering, wretches".
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
But in conducting the people's business surely there are moments when politicians need to speak frankly and sometimes unattractively to one another.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2010
A clock in the window of a delicatessen shop told her the hour was half-past seven, while the sight of the food unattractively displayed proved a sharper reminder of breakfast-time.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
