What is "unprepossessing"

Usage examples of "unprepossessing".

Whether she regretted having given him as much encouragement as lay in a rose dropped from her corsage, or whether she resented the introduction into the party of so unprepossessing a gentleman as Mr Gumley, no one could tell, but although she relented towards him from time to time, even allowing her hand to rest in his for a moment longer than was necessary when he handed her down from the barouche, she was for the most part a little pettish in her manner, and made it plain that he could do nothing to please her.

During supper, the ollave had been asked to sing, and did so readily, unprepossessing but reasonably clean, and almost quite sober.

Ugly animals the size of ferrets, sometime burrow-raiders who scavenged opportunistically from the kills of other predators, the miacoids were an unprepossessing bunch, but nonetheless were the ancestors of the mighty cats and wolves and bears of later times.

Its blocky, armored chassis was very unprepossessing, but it was a bit more maneuverable than the Sandcat on the mountain road.

Victor closeted with Sturm in his study daily for hours at a time, often in confabulation with others of like ilk, men of furtive and unprepossessing cast who came and went by appointment at all hours, but as a rule late at night!

The moment we set foot on shore, two men, very poorly dressed and of unprepossessing appearance, came to us and begged for assistance.

If there were only one or two stars between Shanak and one of the Bugs' core population concentrations, then this "secondary" star system would be of crucial importance despite its unprepossessing appearances.

Lew Croaker, looking ten years younger and as unprepossessing as a florist's assistant should, entered Caesare Leonforte's compound in the back of the green and yellow Amazonia Florist van that daily delivered fresh flowers to the white mansion.

Their large but narrow stems could not steal the shade from a significant number of blossoms, and their drab coloration was hardly a threat to draw pollinators away from even the most unprepossessing common daisy.

The Firstling wondered why anybody would keep so unprepossessing a creature.

Phoenix Chinatown seemed no different from the restaurants on either side of it, except for the pair of peeling plaster Foo Dogs flanking its otherwise unprepossessing entrance.

Leon Gambetta was as unprepossessing in person as he was in reputation—short, fat, bearded, of swarthy and oily complexion, looking very much what he was, the son of an immigrant Genoese grocer—and, for a time, Rouleau wondered how the man could nervously eye both of the far-apart balloons at once, until he realized that Gambetta's left eye was of glass, and disconcertingly independent of his good one.

Captain Hudson, Lee's aide, who was waiting to escort General Jackson back to meet the army's commander in Gordonsville, watched the gaunt, famous figure and wondered if ever, in all the history of warfare, any commander had appeared so unprepossessing.

Some of the grandees seemed ready to make the best of their unprepossessing quarters, while others grumbled and fussed.

All this had been well known from the moment the first Apollo astronaut had picked up the first lump of unprepossessing Moon rock and found it dry as a bone&mdash.