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

Whatever we become online is an extension of our usual behaviour: I was still myself, just amplified unattractively.

From The Guardian • Oct. 18, 2014

After repeated runs through a washer and dryer, polyester blends become brittle and tattered, the fabric pilling unattractively.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2012

Representative Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican of Tennessee, has the Little Debbie goods, which means frosted cupcakes, and some weird little caramel bar that is unattractively packaged, yet freakishly delicious.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2011

It is always, indeed, apparent as a leading characteristic, but it breaks loose only on occasions when it may be safely and not unattractively displayed.

From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various