unlovely
adjective
not lovely; without beauty or charm.
unloveliness
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a word derived from
unlovely.
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
Kindly Shadows The firelight made kindly shadows in the room, softening the unloveliness and lending such beauty as it might.
From Flower of the Dusk by Myrtle Reed
With its grimy smoke, its shrill sounds, and all its other hard unloveliness, it is not a meet neighbor for the tombs of the old Greeks, which are close to it on all sides.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
