Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unsightly; disagreeableness to the sight; deformity; ugliness.
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- noun The state of being
unsightly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ugliness that is unpleasant to look at
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Examples
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Now the unsightliness is a mere memory, with the revamped exterior featuring shingle siding and a chimney, pillars and wainscoting of cultured stone.
The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News By JEFF OVERLEY 2010
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It isn't just the unsightliness of seeing young people struggle to walk with their pants falling down that gets my goat.
Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011
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Quality of Life campaigns have been driven by the concerns of Chambers of Commerce, Business Improvement Districts, and residents uncomfortable with the unsightliness of extreme poverty, especially middle-to-upper class whites.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 2 Paul Boden 2010
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It isn't just the unsightliness of seeing young people struggle to walk with their pants falling down that gets my goat.
Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011
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Quality of Life campaigns have been driven by the concerns of Chambers of Commerce, Business Improvement Districts, and residents uncomfortable with the unsightliness of extreme poverty, especially middle-to-upper class whites.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 2 Paul Boden 2010
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It isn't just the unsightliness of seeing young people struggle to walk with their pants falling down that gets my goat.
Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011
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It isn't just the unsightliness of seeing young people struggle to walk with their pants falling down that gets my goat.
Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011
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It isn't just the unsightliness of seeing young people struggle to walk with their pants falling down that gets my goat.
Danielle Moss Lee: Low-Hanging Pants and Other Phenomena Danielle Moss Lee 2011
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Quality of Life campaigns have been driven by the concerns of Chambers of Commerce, Business Improvement Districts, and residents uncomfortable with the unsightliness of extreme poverty, especially middle-to-upper class whites.
Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 2 Paul Boden 2010
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The unsightliness of it forced me to put ice on my wrists to try to make them disappear, as the hotter it was, the more they protruded.
Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010
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