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Recent Examples of unappealing The already unappealing starting quarterback market has dried up. Zac Jackson, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 Powdered brown flakes might seem unappealing or uncommon on breakfast tables here, but in Europe and Latin America, instant coffee is beloved. Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025 Face-tuning apps play a role in this, Killeen explained, pointing to facial laxity — a term used by surgeons to refer to looser skin — as an example that may seem unappealing but is expected with daily movement and neck function. Leah Dolan, CNN, 22 Mar. 2025 The phone can capture video in resolutions up to 1080p, but the results are noisy and unappealing. PCMAG, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unappealing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unappealing
Adjective
  • The series between the Warriors and the Rockets was slow, low scoring, and ugly—which is exactly how the younger, less experienced Rockets wanted it.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 May 2025
  • This wasn’t the first time Green was subjected to ugly behavior from opposing fans.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
Adjective
  • Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.
    SI.com, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • At dinnertime, the restaurant is busy, but not slammed; the crowd seems to be largely made up of people with beautiful hair and compellingly hideous shoes.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Within the span of a few days, an innocuous speck can turn a loaf of bread from prime sandwich material into a hideous mass of blue-green fuzz—an appetite-killing sight if ever there was one.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • What’s grotesque here is not how Bill Belichick is working the system.
    Luke DeCock, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2025
  • There’s at least one major shoe that could drop — why devote an entire episode to the Gemstone origin story if that gold Bible isn’t going to pay off somehow? — but The Righteous Gemstones loves these grotesque, dysfunctional louts.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite currently trading at around $10, Guess stock appears fundamentally unattractive.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Germinated grass seed is usually unattractive to birds, although some birds are unpredictable, so the faster the seed germinates, the better.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Unappealing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unappealing. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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