unloveliness

Gorgona was but too real and that her unloveliness was a sore trial to the fine attunement of the poet's nerves.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917

And the story focuses on a Jewish family of startling unloveliness, all spikes and prickles and subterfuge with a helping of despotism and madness on the side.

Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.

Book Review Roundup 2010

Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.

Book Review Roundup 2010

How is it that from beautyI have derived a type of unloveliness?

The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover 2009

People like Dennis the Menace, who naturally grate on us, who assault our sensibilities, really help to point out the loci of unloveliness in our own hearts.

Ruminations on Mr. Wilson 2009

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?

The Snow Child and the Fiendish Lover 2009

The point is, to have a good larf with your lovely Liberal friends when they're indulging their inner unloveliness.

"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008

Listening to the general secretary annunciate his list, emphasizing its clarity and unloveliness, I thought of Wis awa Szymborska, in particular the opening of "The End and The Beginning":

Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008

Everything about him had that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness.

To the Lighthouse 2002