Example Sentences

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“My date drop was chopped,” one student wrote, using a slang term for unattractiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Opal Stacie, by contrast, witnessed firsthand how young children are socialized to believe that fatness and unattractiveness are synonymous.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2022

"The number of shares and amount of shareholder capital that companies spend on this shows the inefficiency and unattractiveness of the Japanese market."

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2021

He likes to joke about his dislike of the media, making a crack about their unattractiveness during a recent Halloween event for reporters' children in the Oval Office.

From Time • Oct. 31, 2017

Dorothea never took her eyes off the creature who sat there talking in a screeching voice, and who, as if her normal unattractiveness were not enough, had her head bandaged.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson