as in repulsive
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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
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Joe, who has previously enjoyed shoving corpses through a meat grinder, finds this repulsive.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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Throughout Russian history, Ivan the Terrible – who among his other crimes murdered his eldest son and had the head of Russian Orthodox Church strangled for dissent – was remembered as a repulsive tyrant.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?—
Daniel Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Oct. 2022
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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
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Most people would find a neighbor who purposefully starves and tortures their dogs morally repugnant.—
Jen Cole Wright,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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The reported accession of Geier isn’t the only indication of how the department, whose programs were until recently celebrated as the gold standard of government science, has become a haven of a repugnant anti-science mythmaking and a threat to public health.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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No more boring, irrelevant training modules—this is learning at the speed of work.—
Lisa Bodell,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Some of this may happen under cover of darkness, but much of it happens in the open, under cover of arcane technocracy or boring bureaucracy.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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While some players believe that overworlds are tedious and archaic game designs that only add unnecessary filler in between traveling to different destinations, Expedition 33 avoids this problem by placing optional dungeons on the overworld.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2025
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Properties can be difficult to source, expensive to evaluate, and tedious to manage.—
Fred Hubler,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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He was apparently seen purchasing two bags of cement, a construction bucket, a box of heavy-duty trash bags, Clorox disinfectant spray and insect repellent with cash at a nearby Home Depot.—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
23 Mar. 2025
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The collection also include linen suiting, cotton high gauge knits, water repellent nylon outerwear and silk-linen tops.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Democracy is a discipline, like diet and exercise, strenuous and irksome.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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What's irksome now could get patched, and what's already there is intriguing, especially for the price.—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
5 Mar. 2025
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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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With the exemption, buyers don’t have to fill out tiresome customs paperwork or pay tariffs on small packages.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Unalluring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unalluring. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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