as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an unattractive, awkward baby bird
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Recent Examples of unattractive
Ease of cleaning Machine-washable fabric shower curtains are much easier to care for than plastic shower curtains, where soap scum and mildew can quickly become an unattractive mess.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
Accelerating the vicious cycle, businesses, aware that the state is unattractive to families, are then further incentivized to either leave or not expand their business to California.
—Wayne Winegarden, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
For instance, there’s a difference between wanting a bikini wax so that body hair doesn’t show during swim team meets, and wanting one because hairless models on Instagram convinced them their pubic hair is unattractive.
—Liz Regalia, Parents, 27 Dec. 2025
Traditional antibiotic discovery pipelines are slow, expensive, and increasingly unattractive to pharmaceutical companies.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unattractive
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
Accelerating the vicious cycle, businesses, aware that the state is unattractive to families, are then further incentivized to either leave or not expand their business to California.
—Wayne Winegarden, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
For instance, there’s a difference between wanting a bikini wax so that body hair doesn’t show during swim team meets, and wanting one because hairless models on Instagram convinced them their pubic hair is unattractive.
—Liz Regalia, Parents, 27 Dec. 2025
Traditional antibiotic discovery pipelines are slow, expensive, and increasingly unattractive to pharmaceutical companies.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unattractive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unattractive
Adjective
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The duo first split in 2024 and confirmed the news in February 2025, before things took a dramatically ugly turn.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Nets had already been through ugly this season.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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
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Such jars of moldy fruit were probably fairly hideous to consume.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Rodents of Unusual Size that attack Westley in a swamp work because they are played by small men in rodent suits, rather than coolly conjured from pixels; their deliberate artifice is the thrill, and Reiner provided the voice for their hideous snorts.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2025
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Those artists never stopped creating scenes that captured the vibrancy—and sometimes the more grotesque side too—of places that remain world capitals today.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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The grotesque charade didn’t seem to belong to this world.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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“Unattractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unattractive. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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