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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The old aristocracy of the countryside was unpicturesquely decayed.
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
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
He took them from his shoulders, and, not unpicturesquely, kissed her finger-tips.
From Septimus by William John Locke
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
