Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not attractive or pleasing.
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- adjective not
handsome orbeautiful orappealing - adjective
lacking thepower toattract interest
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking beauty or charm
- adjective not appealing to the senses
- adjective lacking power to arouse interest
Etymologies
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Examples
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But research tells us that what we deem attractive or unattractive is much more complicated: part objectivity, part subjectivity.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: See Yourself As Beautiful: Replace Magic Potions With Cognitive Solutions Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2010
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Inquiring minds want to know: Does the correction indicate that Newmark finds Malkin unattractive?
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At the same time the large copper cents had become increasingly unpopular with the public, which thought the coins unattractive, too heavy, and too prone to collect dirt.
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This is a statistical fact from the NPD Group, an Illinois market-research company, whose most recent poll found that only 36 percent of Americans said they considered overweight people "unattractive" -- down from 55 percent in only eight years.
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I guess saying that fat people are unattractive is ultimately less offensive than condoning rape, but it’s still sort of laughably offensive. thanks, Disney!
Waldo Jaquith - Disney to rebuild the “Small World” ride. 2007
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You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control.
Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time 2008
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You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control.
Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time 2008
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It must be very hard to continually be called unattractive, to have your loneliness thrown back in your face.
Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007
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Even proportional representation for local government, an issue on which Plaid has campaigned strongly on in the past, is now described as unattractive if it blocks his route to power.
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SOUTHERN DINING SOCIETY SECTION: Do we have footage of the woman Borat identified as unattractive being consoled in her darkened living room later that night by her husband?
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