How To Use Unlovely In A Sentence
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So the fact that his elegant four-storey Victorian terraced house is directly opposite a very unlovely old low-rise council estate in Stockwell, south London, might, you feel, cause him aesthetic pain.
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Woody trailers, harsh hard grass in tufts, the Asplenium trichomanes in rifts, the Pellea ternifolia in sand, and some ohia and mamane scrub in hollow places sheltered from the wind, all hard, crisp, unlovely growths, contrast with the lavish greenery below.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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‘You are an unlovely mixture of conceit and arrogance,’ one South African MP told another in 1969.
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The EU is now on its month-long holiday, so the unlovely quartier européen is eerily quiet without the usual round of briefings, summits and French farmers demonstrating against subsidy cuts.
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Entomophagy — the unlovely term for human consumption of insects — is a booming business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three Trees of Rembrandt, black in shadow against the blaze of sunlight; and thou Rosy Cottager of Sir Joshua, -- thy roses hinted by the peppery burin of Bartolozzi; ye, too, of lower grades in nature, yet not unlovely nor unrenowned, Young Bull of Paulus Potter, and Sleeping Cat of Cornelius Visscher; welcome once more to my eyes!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places.
Impressions of South Africa
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The schoolhouse is bare and unlovely, without tree or flower.
The Second Chance
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Perhaps it's the nature of his face - it's built to look older than it is, when it's really just odd - puckish, unlovely, something youth never really touched.
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Consigned to the unlovely basket are colons and semicolons, and dashes and parentheses.
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Which was an understatement, for the farm presented an unlovely picture.
CONFESSIONAL
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No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
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But the fittest has survived, and Byron's unlovely and misbegotten "lauwine" has died a natural death.] [ni] _But I have seen the virgin Jungfrau rear_.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Why read stories concerning unheroic, unlovely people who fail to realise the futility of their modest dreams?
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Her face crimsoned in an unlovely wave, and then became very pale.
She Closed Her Eyes
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Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
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In this political season, where men on both sides of the Atlantic are frantically offering themselves up for public approval - a beauty contest for unlovely people - it seems right to ask: what makes a good politician?
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The unlovely jargon for this is 'workflow solutions'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her mother as a laborer, at peace for once, for there's nothing lovely or unlovely about herbs, and they behave and they don't bother her.
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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Debarred from ordinary amusements or occupations, the irrepressible need of expression effervesced in rhymes as rugged and unlovely as the writers, and ream upon ream of verse accumulated.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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No. The Christmas Eve of a gray industrial city, with a cold wind blowing and steely rain dashing against its unlovely houses.
Christmas Meeting
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The next summer he told the Harvard Divinity School that ‘the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature; it is unlovely; we are glad when it is done.’
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Most of us got into the business so that we could hide in the kitchen because we had bad communication skills or unlovely personal habits or criminal records.
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Today those Martian aliens, in simulacrum, are bestriding the planet in the unlovely guise of wind turbines.
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Twenty minutes in, I was so disorientated, I approached a pet stall and asked if I could take a photo of the unfamiliar creature for sale next to the monkeys - it was, in my defence, a particularly unlovely baby.
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When all the politics is over, when the petty manoeuvring, the skin-saving, the back-protecting and the blame-shifting of this whole unlovely affair are put to one side, it is this that sticks most in the throat.
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New vernacular (including everything we might call Low Road) is unlovely.
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From bogong moths in Canberra to frogs in biblical Egypt, unwelcome and unlovely creatures have the awkward habit of turning up in bulk.
Planet Atheism
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China is, let's not forget, still a communist country, with all the misallocation of resources that characterises that unlovely ideology.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has the courage to take risk, the courage to pursue his dreams, the courage to love the unlovely, and the courage to do the right thing.
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The African diaspora which had its beginning in the unlovely slave trade, has enriched American culture with fresh art energies which are now recognised as an inalienable part of American culture.
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She found a small, inexpensive motel on the outskirts of the town; it was barren and unlovely.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
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Largely by sheer force of will, Strindberg transformed this unlovely hole into a vibrant modernist paradise, employing the then-obscure likes of Wyndham Lewis, Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein to achieve her novel visions.
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Looking through the list of changes, however, one cannot avoid the impression that what was presentational to one man was ‘sexing up’ to another - an unlovely phrase, I concede, but you know what is meant by it.
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Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
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Perhaps it's the nature of his face - it's built to look older than it is, when it's really just odd - puckish, unlovely, something youth never really touched.
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Joy Episalla takes photographs of things that are inconsequential, unlovely and just plain boring.
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This is not a diversion; it's a desperate and unlovely attempt to save the reputation of the government from the charge that they concocted evidence to make the case for war, against the wishes of the intelligence community.
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The real Smith started out in podunk Texas as flat-chested, dark-haired, unlovely Vickie Lynn Hogan with an abusive father, a hapless mother - and zero prospects.
Archive 2007-02-11
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Being unlovely has been a deliberate strategy employed by all sides during the conflict, a way to terrorise and shock opponents and onlookers alike. There is the obviously appalling aspect of the troubles that left over 3000 people dead.
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The "backbiter" is frequently seen, in most unlovely form, and two persons gossiping with an "unseen witness" in the shape of an avenging friend, looking on and waiting for his opportunity to strike!
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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The 13 actors playing these unlovely animals, in the service of the Wicked Witch of the West, were promised $25 for each time they swooped down screaming from the sky on the heroine, Dorothy.
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Tvnz marked the Royal tour with Charles and Camilla, a British news special which demonstrated that however many unlovely body parts we in the colonies thrust in his direction, the Prince of Wales gets much worse at home.
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He was a very unlovely man was Private Sim, especially when asleep, for at this time he opened his mouth very wide, and around it the busy flies were flitting, evidently taking it for the flower of some new kind of orchis or carnivorous plant, and they buzzed about and around it as if enjoying the fun of going as near as they could without quite getting into danger.
Middy and Ensign
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The curved backed curs emerge from the gloom, inching forward in an unlovely cringing gait.
