How To Use Unprepossessing In A Sentence
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It doesn't advertise, it spends no money on spokesmodels or flashy marketing, and the packaging is distinctly unprepossessing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her boast was the reason she eventually wed the unprepossessing, even ugly, deer-legged, voyageur who was her much despised husband.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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I think, looking at her photographs, you would have to say deeply unprepossessing woman, and he fell utterly and completely in love with her that evening, for ever, and died, really, in her arms, forty years later.
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It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
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Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
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His wife is long gone, and he has lapsed into the unprepossessing lifestyle of the set-in-his-ways mid-lifer: washing up when he feels like it, clothes where he drops them, that sort of thing.
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Most radically, we have extended protection to every endangered species, even the lowliest and most unprepossessing-the Furbish lousewort, the snail darter, the desert pupfish, the spotted owl.
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He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
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His guide suddenly stopped before a delapidated café; outwardly, at least, it was unprepossessing in the extreme.
THE LONELY SEA
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An unprepossessing script in somebody's bottom drawer, worked on creatively by a dedicated team of top experts, becomes a brilliant, world-class tax deduction, often without ever even getting a release!
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She is represented by two unprepossessing abstract heads rendered in polychrome clay.
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He was forty - five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick - set, not at all unprepossessing.
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'unprepossessing' by the media and with Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden announcing on talkSPORT that 'We think she looks a bit like Eddie Large, poor woman', Susan Boyle booked herself in for an eyebrow shape, haircut and colour, and then went on a modest shopping spree.
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As a world-weary New Yorker, my son Sam was less than awed by Moscow - until I told him that the unprepossessing marble building on Red Square housed a real-life mummy.
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The man is long-haired and unprepossessing, with tin spectacles and this curious nasal Liverpudlian delivery: the appearance is either grotesque or quaint and the overall impression is one of great foolishness.
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If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations.
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He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
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Her boast was the reason she eventually wed the unprepossessing, even ugly, deer-legged, voyageur who was her much despised husband.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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The Worksop club where he learned the game is unprepossessing and, for all his achievements in world golf, his relationship with the down-to-earth members hasn't changed since he was sweeping up trophies as a junior at the club.
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But although he lives with his children in an unprepossessing suburban home in this medium-size college town, Mr. Mapfumo's heart resides in his homeland.
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Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
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The beauty of Durer's sleeping dog lies not in its unprepossessing appearance but in its usefulness as a hunter.
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He was unprepossessing in appearance, and suffered from a club foot.
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A squat, unprepossessing face, moustache, tiny round glasses that gave an intellectual air.
PROSECUTOR
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The longest (although not the heaviest) catfish is the wels, but it is an unprepossessing fish of no great merit.
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This unprepossessing, humble and exceptionally talented tenor (lacking the prima donna attitude of far too many of his professional colleagues) has been hailed as the greatest living tenor in the world today.
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And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators.
Mapping Innovation
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Less than half a block east from MusiquePlus, though, is a little gem of a place called Merveille Istanbul, a small, unprepossessing lunch spot serving tasty and wholesome Turkish eats for very reasonable prices.
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Why, ain't he a bosker! "he enthusiastically exclaimed, as the hideously unprepossessing little mongrel stood on his hind legs and yelped in excited begging.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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Their world headquarters is similarly unprepossessing: a squat two-story building surrounded by minimal landscaping and modest signage.
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This unprepossessing mare must defy her own humble origins and much more besides.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quite how Neville has managed to find such an unprepossessing place for a party is beyond me.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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As he opens one of his most ambitious buildings yet, a $135 million glass-fronted pavilion that encloses two historic theaters and adds an innovative third, he is also working on a civic library in an unprepossessing edge-city near Vancouver.
Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
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Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
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To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever.
CHAPTER IX
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It is a small and unprepossessing; the scribal hand is unbeautiful.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud.
Raziel
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Then one brief TV interview with an unprepossessing kid holding a skateboard explains the view from the other side: he says the boy was skateboarding on her street, she was yelling at him, then he got angry and pushed her.
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It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
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When I first went out to New York to do a recce for ‘Changing Lanes’, I stumbled upon a very unprepossessing restaurant.
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The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop.
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Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
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Despite their unprepossessing looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
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When I left the Superintendent he was deciding what to do with these unprepossessing specimens of the soldiery.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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Though unprepossessing to look at, he is highly intelligent.
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Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society.
A Car for the Everyday Man
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It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.
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We trundled off, hiked up a steep incline of jagged coral, past poisonous trees and cat-sized frogs, and ended up at an unprepossessing wooden pontoon at the edge of a vast lake.
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Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
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The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel.
The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv
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He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer.
Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum
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A rather colourless pair of unprepossessing portraits.
Times, Sunday Times
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His conquests have surprised many, largely because of his unprepossessing appearance.
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It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself.
Britain's best film directors show some early promise
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Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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Even the most flattering chronicles noted the marshal's unprepossessing appearance: of medium height, with at best regular features and heavy eyebrows that allegedly joined over the nose.
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But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it.
The Confidence-Man
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Like many of the sites, this bommie was rather unprepossessing above water, but below it was a different matter entirely.
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As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit, and at the same time acutely self-conscious about what he felt to be his unprepossessing appearance; in consequence, he played no part in games and tended to be a natural prey to bullies.
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The first appearance by a man in Barker's work is unprepossessing, to say the least.
