Unprepossessing

Unprepossessing on the outside, it was more so on the inside: just a row of wooden booths and some tables, with a bar on the left and a pool table at the rear.

Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994

_A Dingy and Unprepossessing Preacher_ (_unctuously_).

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

Unprepossessing he might be, but he was in no sense formidable.

The Swindler and Other Stories 1910

Unprepossessing as most of the colliers 'homes were, Lowrie's cottage was a trifle less inviting than the majority.

That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

Unprepossessing as most of the colliers 'homes were, Lowrie's cottage was a trifle less inviting than the majority.

That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

Unprepossessing then, in feature, gait and manners, unkempt and ill-dressed beyond what can be easily described, these poor fellows formed a class apart, whose thoughts and ways were not as the thoughts and ways of Ernest and his friends, and it was among them that Simeonism chiefly flourished.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

When you ask what he does away from the kitchen, he rhapsodises about Ikeda, the Japanese restaurant on Brook Street - 'Unprepossessing place but it's yum!'

Evening Standard - Home Lydia Slater 2011