Example Sentences

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I had not been able to get past the music’s unprettiness.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

I don’t remember how I thought of my appearance before, but from then on it was easy to find evidence of my unprettiness.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2016

There are many things that distinguish Berlin from the other major European festivals – not least the sheer militant unprettiness of Potsdamer Platz in February.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2016

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was—in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces—a stunning and final girl.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger