Example Sentences

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After an uncharming start, Vance has been straining to seem affable and moderate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Chaudhuri remembers visiting Oriel College as a student in the early 1990s and finding “its old-fogey students with monarchist enthusiasms, its conservatism … uncharming but weirdly funny”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2018

The upside: These missives were invariably scrawled with such haste and uncharming resentment that they were all illegible, thereby relieving the recipient of the need to respond.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2015

This sounds like a crazily provocative, uncharming thing to say, until you mull it over and realize that it makes perfect sense.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2015

What could he see in that plain, gauche, uncharming creature?

From The Captives by Walpole, Hugh, Sir