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

It seemed a fitting emblem of that nature which covered the unloveliness of the world by His own beauty, and changed the dark spots of earth to pure white.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

Unless the man of genius buries himself resolutely in the country and by the sea, as Tennyson did, as Clausen does, he cannot altogether escape the influence of the unloveliness of modern life.

From Critical Studies by Ouida