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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.
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Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unalluring
Adjective
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Someone may have had the impulse to say something despicable about the assassination of Kirk or expressed some repulsive attitudes towards a particular group of people that warranted social pressure.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
17 Sep. 2025
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Parasites are repulsive enough in the wild, but coming across one in your food takes the gross-out factor to a whole other level.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This revolting behavior is not limited to the media.—
Brooke L. Rollins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But Montgomery also insisted that Billy get a more complex backstory that helped explain his repugnant behavior, especially toward Max and Lucas in the second season.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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But Rieff also invokes sickness in another sense, denoting that which is morally repugnant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Anyone who suggests Guardiola’s title-winning Manchester City teams were boring should be forced to watch 90 minutes of Mourinho’s Chelsea versus Rafael Benitez’s Liverpool in the mid-2000s and report back.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The details might be boring, but the gathering of money—searching gem dealers, gold dealers—was a full-time job.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The upshot of this contempt is a season that layers hypocrisy as well as sanctimony over the grubby, tedious nihilism that made Dahmer so miserable to watch.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
6 Oct. 2025
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Their analysis suggests professors tend to automate more tedious and routine work, including financial and administrative tasks.—
Lee V. Gaines,
NPR,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That goes for bars of pungent soap, essential oils, sonic repellant devices, and hanging up pennies in bags of water, a favorite Internet myth.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 Oct. 2025
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Instead, if your climate allows, try placing containers of deer-repellant herbs (like rosemary, lavender, and sage) nearby.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There are a few reasons why these words are so irksome.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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His quarry was Frank Sinatra, the reigning entertainment icon of the 20th century, then on the verge of turning the irksome age of 50.—
Mark Rozzo,
Air Mail,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Esmail seems too enamored of his own (tiresome) visions of Nifty Things That Might Happen During an Apocalypse to actually bother fleshing any of these characters out.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Barcelona delegate, as portrayed by an overly ceceando Mikey Day, suggested skipping the tiresome lecture, only to be taken off camera to be beheaded.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Unalluring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unalluring. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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