Example Sentences

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What he objected to was sloppy, overwrought language that depicted both nature and emotion untruthfully and unbeautifully.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

The Secret Friend was there, and he was gazing so earnestly down the cliff that his hair was hanging forward most unbeautifully, and he was rather red in the face.

From This Is the End by Benson, Stella

When Sunfish, between flashes, stumbled into a shallow washout, and sent Thurston sailing unbeautifully over his head, Bob pulled up and slid off his horse in a hurry.

From The Lure of the Dim Trails by Bower, B. M.

"Oh, David, it's going to be very hard for you—all because an old fool—" Aunt Clara was crying now, noisily and unbeautifully because she had had little practise.

From The House of Toys by Miller, Henry Russell

She had known nothing of the course of this river after it left the confining banks of the city, through which it flowed darkly, rapidly, unbeautifully.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton