unpicturesque
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He was born in unpicturesque Paisley, and brought up on its most notorious housing estate, Ferguslie Park – "Feegie" or "the Jungle".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether.
From Time Magazine Archive
On those occasions when the author is laughing at the South, she is casual, succinct and totally unpicturesque.
From Time Magazine Archive
A group of lighters and such unpicturesque craft occupied another part of the scene, engaged, as it seemed, in operations for raising other vessels.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
Useless and unpicturesque for years, they some day suffer a change; a piece of good luck, success in business; any of these can furnish sunlight, and the change is born.
From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell
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