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unlovely

Word definitions for unlovely in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. unattractive, ugly

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But at the same time I revelled in the unlovely sound because it might be the saving of my miserable life. ▪ How could that evil and unlovely face be Dorian Gray's? ▪ They really were rejects, zero contributors, the unlovely ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unlovely \Un*love"ly\, a. Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant. -- Un*love"li*ness , n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "not evoking feelings of love," from un- (1) "not" + lovely . Meaning "ugly" is recorded from 1390s.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without beauty or charm [syn: unpicturesque ] used of circumstances; "an unlovely ride to work on a crowded train"

Usage examples of unlovely.

A bleak and unlovely prospect after even these few days of luxury, and how empty it would be without Assh and Frey.

The unlovely opponent had dribbled one just barely over the too-low public-park net, a freak accident, a mishit drop-shot, and another man on another court in another early-round laugher would have let it dribble, conceded the affordable, not tried to wave a hankie from the vessel of his limit.

Mignon was deliberately being unlovely and unamenable and from the shock in Mr.

After it was allover and C-12 was walking away with her, I was no longer under the influence and I could see there was something hard and overblown about her--a kind of unlovely and predatory gleam in her eye.

Vo Astur and Vo Mimbre were fortresses, and they looked like fortresses, blocky and unlovely.

The two patrolmen were taking the shortest way back into the city centre, along the state highway that parallels the A14 autostrada from Ancona and the Adriatic coast, looping through the unlovely dormitory suburbs to the north of Bologna to connect with the spinal cord of the Ai.

They were small, sturdy beasts, unlovely and not very tamenothing like the highbred steeds the Videssians prized.

He had never liked, but, being a true New Yorker, had greatly admired the splendor of that palace, its costly art junk, its rotten old tapestries, its unlovely genuine antiques, its room after room of tasteless magnificence, suggesting a museum, or rather the combination home and salesroom of an art dealer.

Therefore complain I not of modern degeneracy, when, even from the open window of the small unlovely farmhouse, tenanted by the hard-handed man of bovine flavors and the flat-patterned woman of broken-down countenance, issue the same familiar sounds.

I watched the countdown, and the totally unimpressive lighting of the plasma torch at the rear of the long, lumpy, completely unlovely congregate of landers, orbiters, propulsion modules, reactors, solar panels.

This evil place they straightway entered in, Where riot reigned, the wild, unlovely din Of archers, men-at-arms, and rogues yet worse, Who drank and sang, whiles some did fight and curse.

So we have provided an interpreter, a young lad who has considerable proficiency in Náhuatl (which is what these Aztecs call their guttural language of lengthy and unlovely words).

I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug‑that my poor body, singular, unlovely, buffeted by too much history, subjected to drainage above and drainage below, mutilated by doors, brained by spittoons, has started coming apart at the seams.

And the next second it's your six-inch raindrops pumping up and down like bobbins on the front steps and the thunder and lightning setting off every car alarm in the street and the drain covers bursting their housings and slithering like discuses down the road in the brown current and the palm fronds and trash-cans adding their unlovely contribution, and the black fellows in capes who always appear out of nowhere whenever there's a down-pour, flogging you golf umbrellas through your car window or offering to push you to higher ground for a dollar so that you don't get your distributor wet.

The thicket which degenerated from the dark heart of Eald was an unlovely place, for the Ealdwood had once been better than it was, and there was still a ruined fairness about that wood.