as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
strip-mining leaves an unsightly gash in the landscape
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Recent Examples of unsightly
This can lead to more scratches and an even more unsightly end result.
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Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
Two doors on either side also conceal unsightly tech, with cutouts at the back that discreetly corral cables.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
Hours later, after an unsightly loss to the Athletics, the Padres still occupied both positions atop the standings.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Williams, who includes this model in her best wet-dry vac review, likes the Turbo mode for messier spots, and the tangle-free technology helps prevent that unsightly wad of hair wrapped around the bristles.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unsightly
Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2025
Two doors on either side also conceal unsightly tech, with cutouts at the back that discreetly corral cables.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
Hours later, after an unsightly loss to the Athletics, the Padres still occupied both positions atop the standings.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Williams, who includes this model in her best wet-dry vac review, likes the Turbo mode for messier spots, and the tangle-free technology helps prevent that unsightly wad of hair wrapped around the bristles.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsightly
Adjective
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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
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This wasn’t the first time Green was subjected to ugly behavior from opposing fans.—
Curtis Pashelka,
Mercury News,
10 May 2025
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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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
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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
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What’s grotesque here is not how Bill Belichick is working the system.—
Luke DeCock,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2025
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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
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“Unsightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsightly. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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