How To Use Unattractive In A Sentence

The Orangery restaurant is not as gorgeous as the rest of the house, partly because it is in a modern extension, but mainly because it is unattractively lit.
The selling may not see strong bids from regular customers because the sector's yield level is unattractively low, said Naoki Tsuchiyama , a market economist at Mizuho Securities. Japanese Yields Rise
Cadbury dismisses 'derisory' Kraft bid food giant Kraft yesterday, labelling it "derisory" and "unattractive" and calling on its shareholders to turn it down. WN.com - Articles related to Cadbury chief prefers Hershey to Kraft as bid battle looms larger
Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets.
Fortunately their heady, heavenly aroma more than compensates for their physical unattractiveness. Times, Sunday Times

It must be very hard to continually be called unattractive, to have your loneliness thrown back in your face. Kickboxing Geishas
Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
In the eyes of society, and the caring services, old age is the most unattractive part of the service.
His face turned a rather unattractive shade of red at the suggestion that his sons could be cross-dressing.
It is not an unattractive option to make programmes for other companies.
It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
The house's aspect was dark and unattractive.
Deepika is my foot guru who, in half an hour, will transform my unattractive foot complete with corns, calluses and untidy-looking toes into a thing of beauty.
this was financially unattractive
I pressed the ‘Door open’ button and a not unattractive older woman bounded in between me and my prize trolley.
Or, as it turns out in my case, unattractiveness. Times, Sunday Times
A cat with little bald patches is unattractive. And I do so like my cat to be cute.
It was a most unattractive sound, and I had to speak to him quite sharply about it.
Having being overgenerous in its first table of standard values, the ministry has now swung the other way and the new rates represent a pretty unattractive underpinning of the market.
This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
The interior proves to be equally unattractive: a mix of dull carpets, decaying furniture, and bleak beige walls.
However, the plantations are unattractive to local people, not because the people are 'choosy' but because they can't live on the pittances offered as wages. Malaysia independent news
Some of the windows incorporate mediaeval work, but the interior is unattractive and not helped by the masses of dreary pews.
At about the same time thousands of Austrians with unattractive mutton chops, beer bellies and thick sunglasses will mourn their leader.
The real Turpin it seems was just as different, an unattractive, unchivalrous and brutal thief who raped and murdered.
The fact that many farms in County Carlow were unsellable as proved by recent auctions, shows the real story and unattractiveness of farm-ing, " Senator Browne contended.
They sound fuzzy and unattractive; their songs simply aren't memorable.
My definition of a neocon is the extreme right fringe who are unattractive patriarchal WASP megalomaniacs that were bullied in grade school, so they now try to fight everyone with someone elseâ€ ™ s blood, sweat and tears. Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
It conveys an inhuman and relentless force that could well symbolize a very unattractive futurist society as well as the horror of war.
President Obama said today that the majority of health problems in the United States are related to obesity, from heart disease to diabetes to severe unattractiveness. Pablo Andreu: Healthcare Bill Renamed "Or You Will Die of Fatness" Bill
The stunning singer admits she is shocked that men lust after her now she has grown up because she was overweight and unattractive as a teenager..
Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
That's why he found most young women unattractive, regardless of their exterior beauty.
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices (made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions), that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up or otherwise making herself totally unattractive. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
SOUTHERN DINING SOCIETY SECTION: Do we have footage of the woman Borat identified as unattractive being consoled in her darkened living room later that night by her husband? November « 2006 « Gerry Canavan
Luma Lane has already given brief respite by then; hair clamped in bunches, her not unattractive playground lullaby vocal stripped from the finer points of the 4AD back catalogue.
Indeed, for the cause of action to arise only when the lender realises his security would be a highly unattractive proposition.
It seemed like an unattractive proposition for audiences and ultimately box office sales.
And I wonder why religion has always been such an unattractive proposition to me.
My face turned an unattractive shade of tomato red, clashing with my hair.
Was his failure due to choosiness? he wondered - or fear of rejection, or unattractiveness? Fear
Without industry and rapid social development, the eastern lands were simply too unattractive and severe to Germanise with any ease.
Let's keep the unattractive, empty warehouses on the river front and make the city as unwelcoming as possible to stop the invasion of these pesky incomers.
I've met a few in my time and the defining characteristic they exhibit is a rather unattractive effortlessness and ennui.
The new analysis is a sound way to test an unattractive idea.
He's a rather unattractive man with long greasy hair and pasty skin.
Dunfermline is taking money with a twinkle in its eye, paying a not unattractive 6.75% on the top band.
My hair was lank and dull, I was very thin, brown pigmentation began to spread up my arms and on my cheeks; I was depressingly unattractive.
This is modern architecture at its most unattractive.
Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence.
Even proportional representation for local government, an issue on which Plaid has campaigned strongly on in the past, is now described as unattractive if it blocks his route to power. Overkeen Plaid abandon principles already
The weather and the soggy pitch were tailor-made for the traditional New Zealand strengths of grinding forward play, and they held the edge throughout in the front five in an unattractive encounter.
Some "pet peeves" of mine concerning dress are: bra straps that show. underwear that shows (and this goes for the boys too). tattoos, which make a woman look hard. any kind of facial pierce. clothing that is the wrong size, either too small (making it unattractively clingy) or too large (making it look like a sack). Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
But throughout, as the procession goes around and around, the aural system is assaulted by an unattractive mix of hysterical commentary and high pitched engine whine.
Inquiring minds want to know: Does the correction indicate that Newmark finds Malkin unattractive? Is That Legal?: Blogging Archives
Mayors have no moral grounds to complain about good Samaritans who feed vagrants when all else that's available to the homeless are sterile, unattractive environments.
For young women, and young men, chewing sepa, and having stained teeth, is considered old fashioned and unattractive.
The options were overpriced, unattractive and could make a super model look terrible.
We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want.
But for many potential buyers, the moribund nature of the stock market today makes it unattractive.
Mother Hallam is the prototypical matriarch; the sisters-in-law are postmarital versions of Cinderella’s stepsisters — unattractive, catty, and stingy; and the materialistic sons enjoy a complacent rigidity. Rose Franken.
If you ever wanted to know how to check cyclamen for fungal growth, or what makes your parsnips fork so unattractively, then this gently pastoral series is just what you've been looking for. Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly
Some of this relates to the wide and varied aspirations of young lawyers and some of it to the unattractiveness of private practice to significant segments of the population. Finding Balance
It's part of the curiosity of contemporary Japan that it presents you with some of the most jangled and mishmashed, unattractive urban landscapes in the world and yet, in many places, every little shop and cafe you enter will be immaculate and exquisite, whether it plays only Beatles records or Mozart. Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
But an hour and a half of loser superheroes gimping around in unattractively tight costumes is certainly transfixing even if it isn't entertainment.
His cutting, slightly high-pitched voice he found unattractive. THE GOLDEN LION
Her voice could be unattractively shrill sometimes, he noticed. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Is the English ivy covering the unattractive fence in my backyard really an environmental villain?
as unattractive as most mining regions
The style in her dark red hair was gone and she felt dowdy, unattractive. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
Even when speaking, they do not say anything clever and many of them have a terrible, squeaky voice which foreigners think is babyish and unattractive.
He was short and overweight and generally fairly unattractive.
She again hinted that while the site may remain, knocking down the rather unattractive buildings and starting afresh was a real option.
You've got to be loud and zany and willing to contort your face and body into positions that might fairly be described as unattractive; you've got to be completely uninhibited, shameless, and out of control. Annual Hog Calling Contest at Illinois State Fair Won by a Woman for the First Time
Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading.
She says that virtually all the identified unimproved plant introductions she encountered had characteristics that made them unattractive to American farmers.
Most players these days seem to insist on vocalising a very unattractive sounding grunt whenever they hit the ball, as if in some way the making of this noise actually improves their performance.
It seems that most sheep producers think as I do that the scheme is not only economically unattractive but also irreversible.
The palace and front garden are in unattractive "rococo" style, especially the rooms occupied by Frederick the Great; but the gardens in the rear of the palace are large and most attractive. In and Around Berlin
But research tells us that what we deem attractive or unattractive is much more complicated: part objectivity, part subjectivity. Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: See Yourself As Beautiful: Replace Magic Potions With Cognitive Solutions
His writings reveal an unattractive preciousness of style.
In normal circumstances the suggestion that a contracting party can rely on his own breach to establish consideration is distinctly unattractive.
Analysts said that the bank could not perform well compared to other banks because of all the unattractive red tape.
While the one on the left had the other stewardesses were chugging down and dancing, it was the one on the right that was favoured by our unattractive hostess.
that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive
But Dublin also had a number of unattractive features that had the potential to turn away investors.
He suggests that the minority of people who voted for this unattractive party are not constituents of the sitting Member of Parliament.
The tendency has been to ignore or procrastinate until intervention becomes the least unattractive course of action.
Adams crowed, his gruff unattractive voice suddenly the most golden tone Daniel had ever heard.
A young guy in glasses - not unattractive - is dancing in some kind of plastic poncho.
The plans do not include water chutes, however, since they are seen as being outdated and unattractive to today's leisure users.
All at once, unattractive qualities such as insularity, parochialism and downright arrogance were introduced into the previously contented continental mix.
And finally - the question that every interviewer asks - how did he get lumbered with such an appallingly unattractive surname?
The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
Unfortunately, they turned out to be quite unattractive, with the datolite being a dirty white to cream color and having a texture that is granular to sugary rather than porcelaneous.
His writings reveal an unattractive preciousness of style.
The president was unattractively defensive, and at times rambling, humorless, pleading and frustrated. Andy Ostroy: "Dude," Where's My President!?
But if boho isn't your vibe, you're going to feel silly and icky wearing them, and that's just plain unattractive.
The exchange reveals much: first, people care for this "Wonder Woman of American letters" as friend and writer; second, misery unsettles identities and at this point Oates, author of more than 50 novels, does not see herself primarily as a novelist; third, she is honest enough sometimes to paint a quite unattractive self-portrait. A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates – review
This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
It was the unattractiveness of what he offered that always drew the widows in. Lorelei
I'm 27, have a nice flat, a good job and I'm not unattractive.
And, because I'm writing for The Jewish Journal -- and am a Jewish woman -- I'd ask him what the heck was up with some of the movie's snide, subtle one-liners, in particular, the not-so-veiled references to the general unattractiveness of my cohort. Danielle Berrin: Desperately Seeking Sorkin
Sorry, Auntie, but I can't understand why you would call Judith Bingham's Mass "shriekingly unattractive". London on a summer Sunday...
Such exploratory activities are increasingly unattractive compared with the short-term measurable improvements in competency arising from exploitation.
she was unattractively dressed last night
In a report, officers said many of the council's buildings were ‘of a poor standard, unattractive to young people, and some are unfit for purpose’.
The other main reason I find string theory unattractive is that it introduces a great deal of baggage, e.g., in the form of extra dimensions and extra particles (I have a related objection to all the new parameters introduced by supersymmetry, which is pretty much required by string theory in my understanding). The String Theory Backlash
Arrogance is a very unattractive personality/character trait.
Wood-work dingy, unpainted, gashed, scratched; windows dingy and dim; walls dingy and gray and smoked; everything unhomelike, unattractive, narrow, and rickety. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
Guess we're all confined to unattractiveness and those dreadful 1950s thick rimmed spectacles that according to stereotype all academically sound people wear.
There's nothing more ageing and unattractive than eyes framed by dark smudges or clogged lashes, so I've asked a couple of top make-up artists to share their secrets with us.
His post-modernism is pretty unattractive and essentially nihilistic. The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World « PubliCola
Though she was not unattractive, Ben had spurned her several times simply because she always came on too strong and would not desist her coquetry.
Within the few pubs that do provide smoke-free areas, the no smoking rooms invariably tend to be the most unattractive/poky/tatty.
Arrogance is a very unattractive personality/character trait.
I need friendly font sizes that don't cause premature use of unattractive, presbyopic eyewear.
Most of the buildings in this town are rather unattractive, but this church is an exception.
Their conversation was interrupted when their stagecoach stopped at a small way station and a comely woman with light-brown hair dressed in unattractive dark clothing joined the stage.
This is modern architecture at its most unattractive.
If you ever wanted to know how to check cyclamen for fungal growth, or what makes your parsnips fork so unattractively, then this gently pastoral series is just what you've been looking for. Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly
We all need a wake up call sometimes, and too many college guys just need to wake up to the fact that their machismo is immature, unappreciated, more than unattractive. The Male Gaze-Definitely Not Hot.
After all, she was not unattractive; a bit empty-headed perhaps, but quite amusing at times. FINAL RESORT
I'm 27, have a nice flat, a good job and I'm not unattractive.
Each started her career riffing on the fact that her brand of unattractiveness made people uncomfortable.
Most of the buildings in this town are rather unattractive, but this church is an exception.
My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents: indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
What Kilbourne is saying to me is that my little girl, my beautiful daughter who has described her little potbelly as being "fluffy" and who loves to wear bikinis even though her belly is "puffy," is just a couple of years away from seeing herself as fat, as unattractive and as abnormal. John Riofrio: Open Letter to American Girl
Nobody liked his conclusions but the obverse was equally unattractive.
I could claim to be a model (admittedly only to people that have never seen how hideously unattractive I am).
Beyond telling me to find new friends, Shelley was hinting that I was unattractive.
The danger being that while the audience accepts when is on stage, his offensiveness is a parody of other people's prejudices made more piquant by our worry that, at some level, we battle with equally unattractive knee-jerk reactions, that comic tension doesn't always come across in interviews. Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever
I'm glad I did even though it meant I had to commit to a life of chastity because of my new faith, rather than being chaste in a unplanned way because of my unattractiveness. Oh, No, it's Nanowrimo!!!
Step 7: Abandon step 6 and realize that callouses are so unattractive. Archive 2009-10-01
Maybe in your distracted state you scratched yourself, you know, unattractively. BLOOD IS DIRT
He suggests that the minority of people who voted for this unattractive party are not constituents of the sitting Member of Parliament.
They say the world demand for aggregates has halved since the inquiry, making the development economically unattractive.
On the flip side though: Who wants to see overweight or unattractive women on television, in the papers or in advertisements?
You may have a tendency to avoid gyms because you think of them as unattractive, boring or impersonal places.
The new conscript army must have been rather unattractive for the samurai.
In this culture, a career option as ‘modern matron’ becomes unattractive.
This is modern architecture at its most unattractive.
Most of the buildings in this town are rather unattractive, but this church is an exception.
Vincent had once called her scrawny, perhaps Philippe was finding her unattractively thin? WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
Well, put it like this, the stereotype of the angry, unattractive man-hater is just that. The Sun
Long distance coaches are unattractive in the US, partly because of their high exposure to fuel and inflationary wage costs.
For a sheer handkerchief linen, rather than using interfacing on the facings, which would then show through and look unattractive, try doubling the front of the blouse entirely.
It is a short, unattractive tree, with epigeous branches spreading out in a straggling manner. The Philippine Islands
The one bird I do find unattractive is the menacing seagull, particularly the alpha individuals who bully the others away from sources of food by craning their necks and gargling like their throat has been slit.
being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect
The project would bring back to vibrant life 300 acres of brownfield land at the unattractively named Pithouse West site, which neighbours the borough's award-winning Rother Valley Country Park.
Pulled out of its tube and drained of its color, the worm is decidedly flaccid and unattractive.
The massive gravity wells of Jupiter and Saturn make them very unattractive sources of materials.
The house's aspect was dark and unattractive.
Typically, mouse pads come as simple plastics or textile underlays, available in any electronics store, sometimes in basic and often unattractive designs.
Now, plans are being made cheaper and easier, allowing mutual fund companies to exploit this previously unattractive market.
Her outsize veneers were so unattractive that they apparently drove away her husband.
If they are ugly, if they are unattractive, if they are too harsh for people to take on, they're not newsworthy.
The other young man is not very tall, a bit too muscle-bound for my taste, and has that short spiky hair almost-shaved-at-the-side that I find most unattractive.
In normal circumstances the suggestion that a contracting party can rely on his own breach to establish consideration is distinctly unattractive.
In addition, Protestantism, with its emphasis on ‘godly’ preaching and Bible study, was an academic creed, unattractive to illiterate villagers steeped in the oral traditions and symbolic ritualism of medieval England.
I jumped in shock when I saw a new spit wad fly upwards and stick on the roof with an unattractive splat sound.
Seems like Lady Luck is finally smiling on the unattractive shlub.
This puzzles me since I'm told I'm not unattractive and I think I come across as friendly.
Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading.
I've been known to load on excessive amounts of mascara (We're talking 5-8 coats, people!) - if you've ever tried this before, you know what kind of clumpy, spidery and thoroughly unattractive mess this usually makes. Makeup Bag
The unattractive appearance of the lesions may worry parents, and children are often barred from schools and kindergartens because of fear of spread of the infection.
Rapid transit would aid mightily a more intensive development of this metropolitan heartland and would tend to minimize this aesthetically unattractive "scatteration". Planning for Transportation in the Metropolitan Community
Such crushing euphemisms as 'plain' and 'homely' fail utterly to capture her unattractiveness. Times, Sunday Times
Time after time I had withstood complete turmoil within me, constantly asking myself why I was so ugly and unattractive.
It has found out, sometimes the hard way, that these are the people with the unattractive task of running the party at local level and who deliver votes.
These are the moments that seem to cosmically draw Super Hot Boyfriend to me from wherever he is in the universe—almost some kind of equalizing force that senses the incredibly high levels of unattractiveness I'm registering and must bring supernatural hotness to my locale to balance things out. *le sigh* Equalizing Forces
On the face of it, the simplicity of the concept may sound unattractive, but flesh in some details and the picture changes significantly.
That's why comb-overs or toupees or other attempts to disguise it (including shaving, but less so) are seen as very unattractive.
As long as she keeps her shoes and glasses on and shaves off her body hair on a regular basis, Isserley manages to pass as a not entirely unattractive human female.
My wavy brown hair was now unattractively straight, plastered onto my face as the rain poured down heavily on me.
The maturity profile of the bonds may be an unattractive feature for many investors.
What do you do with a leaky old pool surrounded by unattractive concrete decking that takes up half the backyard?
Not only do microbial frugivores consume fruits and fail to disperse seeds, but they often render fruits unattractive to vertebrate frugivores that do disperse seeds.
Unfortunately, she is also quite unattractively photographed at times and needs to have a stern word with the cameraman.
The old quartiers populaires disappeared, their inhabitants pushed into unattractive suburbs, as happened also in Paris and other cities during the same years.
Upon hearing me blatantly making fun of her, she turned an unattractive shade of red.
She sees he has sweat over his face, oddly unattractive.
The point is not that he was, but that the geisha can make the dullest, most unattractive, paunchy, middle-aged office worker feel that he is the sexiest man alive.
The Niigata of the Government, with its signs of progress in a western direction, is quite unattractive-looking as compared with the genuine Japanese Niigata, which is the neatest, cleanest, and most comfortable-looking town I have yet seen, and altogether free from the jostlement of a foreign settlement. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Yet the orangutan is a creature who lives alone, seeking out others only to mate--but their fur is an unattractive shade of orange, and they shit at unfortunate times when you visit them at the zoo. By Popular Request--Why Not Moose?
It is even possible that something akin to racism could evolve one day, as those who are financially challenged will be branded as such by their unattractiveness.
What is more likely will look like California, with massive social service cuts followed by social disruption, and/or increased crime, and/or unattractive conditions (amputated beggars on the National Mall). Matthew Yglesias » Hegemony and Deficit
It is also about balancing the acoustics, ensuring that the furnishings of the place add to the atmosphere by subtracting unattractive noise.
Instead, you find yourself outraged by the fact that in the course of an average working day these already unattractive garments soak up tens of billions of endemic, playfully airborne, hospital-dependent microbes issuing from the rheumy pipes and tubes of the chronically ill. Archive 2009-05-01
At the same time the large copper cents had become increasingly unpopular with the public, which thought the coins unattractive, too heavy, and too prone to collect dirt. One Cent Flying Eagle, 1856-1858 : Coin Guide
They were emotionally troubled, or socially maladjusted, or marginal in some more or less unattractive way, or quaintly anachronistic.
I glossed my lips without color, left my hair sleeked in the ponytail, wore a long beige skirt with a matching sweater and finished with flat, unattractive, brown loafers.
The Europe case is sound but the baggage that comes with it is unattractive and in any case a world of electoral dreams The other problem is that this attitudinising will leave the Conservative party entirely in the hands of Liberals with any move towards UKIP policies, which are widely supported, appearing actually treacherous This is very bad indeed and entirely the fault of UKIP who have failed to maintain respectability and civility. Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion
My thesaurus lists all these unattractive equivalents indolent, somnolent, lumpish, torpid, slack, lax, good-for-nothing… and so on.
This is a statistical fact from the NPD Group, an Illinois market-research company, whose most recent poll found that only 36 percent of Americans said they considered overweight people "unattractive" -- down from 55 percent in only eight years. The Joys Of Living Large
I guess saying that fat people are unattractive is ultimately less offensive than condoning rape, but it’s still sort of laughably offensive. thanks, Disney! Waldo Jaquith - Disney to rebuild the “Small World” ride.
“Nacho, Nacho Man!” he chirruped, wiggling his not unattractive hips. Archive 2009-01-01
In effect, the district judge was faced with a difficult choice between two unattractive alternatives.

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