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To further enlarge my understanding he contorted his face unprettily.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

These are the Aphides—sometimes unprettily called plant-lice, and vaguely spoken of by the uninformed as "blight"—and they nourish themselves on vegetable juices, that thin green blood which is the plant's life.

From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Sober, he seemed to feel little pride of person, and his whiskers at such a time merely called attention somewhat unprettily to his lack of a chin.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon

Thiebault, the knight, obtains leave from his lady to go, and she, by a device not unprettily told, gets from him leave to go too.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George