sightly

How To Use sightly In A Sentence

• Women suffering from anorexia are still convinced that their thin, frail bodies are fat and unsightly. Conversely, some people who are a great deal heavier than they should be can persuade themselves that they are 'just right'.
• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
• This kid friendly fairy tale about an unsightly ogre was both heartwarming and very funny.
• Begin the meeting on time-or if possible sightly early - this will minimize chair squirming and lessen any build up of tension. Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy)
• Use a thirty-gallon garbage bin as a laundry hamper… it's waterproof, and hides those unsightly stains and odors.
• If I don't work out, I turn into a puddle of unsightly pudge.
• It led to the removal of a number of trees, and the construction of unsightly water cylinders and pumping houses.
• A quick scan reveals all 10 little piggies, with no unsightly bunions or hammer toes.
• A 23 year old woman was referred by her general practitioner with multiple, unsightly lesions on her right pinna, which occasionally discharged pus.
• Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.