Example Sentences

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This bleak little story about a criminal who fell in love with the abused wife of the prison warden could have been made credible only by thoughtful, undecorative realism.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a rash man who ranked the flying buttresses as a sign of defective construction, indicating structural weakness, meaningless and undecorative ornament, and what not.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

Several competitors—Littleton among them—had come in person to explain the merits of their respective drawings, and by the side of solid, red-bearded, undecorative Mr. Cass, Littleton may well have seemed a dandy.

From Unleavened Bread by Grant, Robert

Steve lurched to his feet, thrusting an undecorative face over the table.

From The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Among the undecorative additions of the latter period, are the deserted works of a glass-house, and a dog-kennel. 

From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.