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unbeautiful

  • a word derived from beautiful.
    beautiful
    adjective
    having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind.

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That’s why policymakers have parking lots in their sights: They are big and unbeautiful, and covering them with solar panels doesn’t take away from anything else.

From Washington Post Feb. 6, 2023

The alternative is to be irrelevant, unbeautiful, and therefore, unseen.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2018

The movie, though elegantly framed, favors the unbeautiful, and its landscapes are littered with rusty junk.

From The New Yorker Oct. 26, 2018

If my face became deformed, I’d go from being unbeautiful to pitiable.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2016

It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov