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Recent Examples of uncomely Everyone knows ugliness is in the eye of the beholder and, to a dog lover, there is no such thing as an uncomely canine. John Rogers, Twin Cities, 24 June 2019 In this dark comedy set primarily in the late 1920s, our narrator is Aroon St. Charles, the heavy, uncomely daughter of a landed Anglo-Irish family beset by money troubles. Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomely
Adjective
  • Confirmation bias rears its ugly head, and the person convinces themselves that AI sentience is at hand.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Even with the other guys' admonitions not to, under any circumstances, be themselves, Dee and Charlie's improbable success in charming these scions of the Philly upper crust had the guys — and us — both baffled and anxiously awaiting an ugly twist.
    Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 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
  • One function of bug poems is to remind us that messier and more hideous relations always obtain.
    Hannah Brooks-Motl June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • An alarming situation looked all the more hideous as boos rained down at Dodger Stadium for the club’s fourth straight loss.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the early 1900s, long before smartphones and selfie sticks, tourists flocked to Yellowstone National Park — not for the geysers or scenery, but for a grotesque show: A nightly spectacle of grizzly bears raiding cafeteria scraps from open-pit landfills like desperate, starving pirates.
    Christine Peterson, Vox, 27 June 2025
  • The world is cruel, unfair and full of horrors, many of which will grow increasingly grotesque in our lifetimes.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 June 2025

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“Uncomely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomely. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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