as in ugly
disagreeable to one's aesthetic or artistic sense
believes that even industrial buildings need not have unaesthetic designs
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Recent Examples of unaesthetic
Lamar’s performance of his slanderous mambo was the only real moment of drama and tension amid the Philadelphia Eagles’ unaesthetic beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
Insufficient split, bent and separated legs and unaesthetic body position are a few of the others that fall under that category.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Palmer’s has gone viral on TikTok as an unaesthetic—yet nourishing and effective—skincare brand.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
The way that it is shot is not unaesthetic.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
This manifestly unaesthetic goal might have positioned the Bechers as first-rate architectural historians or even as inventors of the next big thing in heavy industry.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 18 July 2022
Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
Insufficient split, bent and separated legs and unaesthetic body position are a few of the others that fall under that category.
—Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Palmer’s has gone viral on TikTok as an unaesthetic—yet nourishing and effective—skincare brand.
—Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
The way that it is shot is not unaesthetic.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Jan. 2023
This manifestly unaesthetic goal might have positioned the Bechers as first-rate architectural historians or even as inventors of the next big thing in heavy industry.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 18 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unaesthetic
Adjective
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While not the pastor of the United States, Trump surely represents the face of the United States on a daily basis, and that face is an ugly one.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Not so in laissez-faire London, where unregulated insurance markets enabled all kinds of grotesque gambling schemes to thrive.—
Stuart Jeffries,
Air Mail,
4 Apr. 2026
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The Goombas are Gremlin-like and grotesque.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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The calls were loudest for burying power lines, improving utility equipment to withstand storms and compensating businesses and individuals for losses due to outages.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The lawyers also argue that Combs' sentence was too harsh, saying the trial judge wrongly based it in part on a conclusion that the crimes involved fraud and coercion and that Combs was a leader or organizer of criminal activity.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Focused on a 2021 expedition in which Icelandic climber John Snorri Sigurjónsson and the Pakistani father-and-son team Ali and Sajid Sadpara attempt to become the first to summit K2 in winter, when conditions are at their harshest.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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To avoid unpleasant digestive side effects, start by adding 1 tablespoon (or less) to your recipes.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
10 Apr. 2026
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Dahl’s books are fanciful and imaginative, but also dark, cynical, and mean (and, unfortunately, often reflected his real-life ugliness), spinning stories in which gruesome and unpleasant fates befell rotten kids, and adults were frequently selfish, cruel, and not to be trusted.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But his was the last all-male class to enter Princeton, and jarring social changes followed.—
Peter S. Canellos,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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This vulnerability isn’t always soft and can have a jarring effect; the speaker/character is often candid or blunt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Unaesthetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unaesthetic. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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