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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unappealing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ There was an unappealing gloom inside and he could just make out the empty pews enclosed by wood panelling.
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unappealing

a. Not appealing

WordNet
unappealing
  1. adj. (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic" [syn: unsympathetic, unlikeable, unlikable] [ant: sympathetic]

  2. not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess" [ant: appealing]

Usage examples of "unappealing".

He seemed quite positive, and that precise diction of his, that prosecutorial inflection he was prone to, made arguing with him an unappealing prospect.

However unappealing or pathetically ridiculous Dostoevsky makes them out to be, the members of the quintet do not believe in systematic amorality and universal destruction as panaceas for the ills of the social order.

I shivered at the thought of being winterbound on this unappealing coast.

So suddenly seen, after the unappealing heights they had just crossed, the sweep of land below would have appeared like a garden: pleasant and green, all shades of green, thick green forests and neat green orchards and variously green chinampa and farm plots.