unalluring

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Recent Examples of unalluring Los Angeles has never been more unalluring than in this bleak, racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir by first-time novelist Halley Sutton, who’s a kind of #MeToo Jim Thompson. Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unalluring
Adjective
  • Alongside that, the strong nuclear force is repulsive between neutrons, which keeps them from squeezing together even more.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • One is repulsive: Two particles or two cells can’t physically occupy the same space at the same time.
    Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
  • These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • The election results suggest that most Germans find these views, or the impulse to base a political party on them, repugnant.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 13 May 2025
  • Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Salon Clutch Structured yet theatrical, Le Salon is Jacquemus’s answer to the evening clutch—pared back, but never boring.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 May 2025
  • Even Jiro himself, originally thought the film would be boring, Gelb admitted.
    Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Grant applications can be so tedious that some organizations hire professionals whose sole job is to write applications for grant funding.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 14 May 2025
  • To get the most out of it from the gate, enterprises should identify tedious knowledge work that AI agents can support, require agents to show their work and leverage AI verifiers to supervise for accuracy.
    Alon Goren, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Quarterly: Then apply a water repellent like Rain-X or even Meguiar’s Quik Wax (yep, car wax!).
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 3 May 2025
  • The experiment suggests a threshold exists beyond which artificial engagement becomes actively repellent.
    Nathan Pettijohn, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • For Chicago taxpayers, the wait will be especially irksome because many of them are likely to see painful increases, reflecting this year’s triennial reassessment of city properties, the effects of which will be first seen in the second-installment bills.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • This experiment could have gone wrong in any number of ways—by seeming contrived, by seeming disjointed, by imposing on its readers the irksome requirement of tracking which voice is saying what across two continents and the better part of a century.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The marketing around their rematch (which ended in a tiresome double disqualification) was a poor omen for Savage vs. DiBiase.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Naturally, you’re being manipulated the whole time to keep you watching, as tiresome as the characters can become over the series’ several hours.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025

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“Unalluring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unalluring. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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