What is "unsightly"

Usage examples of "unsightly".

She hated the weak man for aggravating the offence of his unsightliness by allying himself with the reactionary powers that made this world as unsightly as himself.

That ugliness was reserved to the males, but they generously let the females share in another one: the unsightly habit of constantly chewing.

I thought at first that she had misapplied her al-kohl eyelid-darkening cosmetic, but I was later to see that almost all Hindus, men as well as women, naturally had that unsightly discoloration of each eye pouch.

Reaching for his briefcase, he looked down his wide, unsightly nose at Stan.

Why then would Alandra willingly leave her world of beauty for a magicless plane of existence, what the Aellei would undoubtedly categorize as an unsightly world?

She had yesterday been turning over the contents of a little cedar box in which she kept her childish possessions, and she had found in an envelope a brown unsightly ghost of what had once been a may-blossom on a Hampshire down.

She was vaguely conscious that there had been a design once in those unsightly mounds, that she had once lived in them.

Dab, staring at the queer, huge, rickety old mass of unsightly wood and glass that Ford was pointing at, after they got ashore.

It has streaked Vanessa silver-blond and has turned my hair orange, in unsightly blocks.

Walter went hither and thither, communicated his quest to each of his few acquaintances, procured introductions, and even without any applied to some who might have employment to bestow, putting so much pride in his pockets that, had it been a solid, they must have bulged in unsightly fashion, and walked till worn with weariness, giving good proof that he was no fool, but had the right stuff in him.

Today, if you were choosing the most unsightly, treacherous and truck-heavy highway in America, the Palmetto would be in the running for grand prize.

Sing how the unsightly black fuzz, like the Persian legions of Darius, sweeps over the Achaean mainland of girls barely into their teens!

There is no unpleasant clenching of the stomach, no unsightly perspiration on the forehead.

The former was badly misshapen, narrowing as a dome but with numerous unsightly bulges upon the crown and scant, rotten tufts of grey hair.

Ogle was just in the process of computerizing his whole operation, buying big high-powered Calyx workstations from Pacific Netware, and those unsightly holes in the plaster made installation a snap.