Unsightly
[ʌn'saɪtlɪ] or [ʌn'saɪtli]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Ugly, homely, plain, ill-looking.
Typed by Jolin
Examples
- It was a corrugated, unsightly mountain of stone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The completed rail is then covered with a finishing strip, known as the blind rail, which covers the unsightly bolt heads and adds to the artistic effect of the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There are no unsightly stone walls and never a fence of any kind. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- St. Sophia is a colossal church, thirteen or fourteen hundred years old, and unsightly enough to be very, very much older. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat (Fig. 5). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It’s an unsightly creature, she said, studying it, and not to be compared with our picture of good St. Christopher on the wall yonder. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And will he then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly? Plato. The Republic.
- On the other hand, not to pull it tight enough will leave the cloth loose, which is not only unsightly, but will impair the rubber and destroy the accuracy of the balls rebounding from it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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