picturesque
adjective
visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting.
unpicturesquely
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a word derived from
picturesque.
Example Sentences
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Sun-bonnets shading merry faces, flushed with business; blue flannel bathing-suits draping very unpicturesquely the persons, bare feet stained with mud,—baskets full of the delicate fish they had been catching.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
Painfully neat, unpicturesquely ugly, the house stood among its great oaks.
From The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play by John Rae
He took them from his shoulders, and, not unpicturesquely, kissed her finger-tips.
From Septimus by William John Locke
Instantly a vision of a somewhat dilapidated house, standing not unpicturesquely among ill-kept fields, leaped to my mind.
From Adventures in Friendship by David Grayson
Mitcham is at present beyond these brick and mortar tentacles, and is grouped not unpicturesquely about a village green and along the road to the Wandle.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
