Example Sentences

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Faced now with Patsy P. in all her unloveliness, Annie is moved nearly to tears at her own life.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

I love to be a little disgusting, to go as far as I can into the thrilling unloveliness of an elderwoman’s aging.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2016

William Hesketh Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in a three-story brick building the natural unloveliness of which was later emphasized by the addition of an extremely inappropriate bay-window.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had finished her meal and, emptying her tea-cup with a noisy sip, she stood up in her gaunt, twisted unloveliness.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

Nothing hurt him quite so much as an unlovely voice—not even unloveliness of face.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)