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US
/ˌənəˈpiɫɪŋ/
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[ UK /ʌnɐpˈiːlɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɐpˈiːlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings
all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic -
not able to attract favorable attention
was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess
they have made the place as unappealing as possible
How To Use unappealing In A Sentence
- Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
- The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
- And there's the small matter that Jules appears to dig sex with Paul (though it's filmed as unappealingly as the Nic-Jules duos). Erica Abeel: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT IS THE REST OF AMERICA?
- Michael Olowokandi and Eric Williams are two of the most unappealing, untalented players in the history of the game! Sharief Easterling: Love & Hip Hop: The Coon Squad
- The Vino Nobile of the firm and drying tannins was a 2003 and had some unappealing overcooked fruit aromas going on. Sasha Smith
- With circumstances and your priorities changing, what's unappealing now could soon hold allure. Times, Sunday Times
- No matter how keen you are to show off the fruits of a fortnight's sunbathing, excessive cleavage or leg can look cheap and unappealing.
- He's wearing a deeply unappealing baseball hat.
- I guess it must be nearly impossible to transcend the uninviting, unappealing, unnerving stigma of hospitals - regardless of good or bad design.
- But while its scope is admirable, the play has an unappealing didactic tone. Times, Sunday Times