as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an unappealing mess of dirt and trash in the corner of the room
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Recent Examples of unappealing
Its villains are cardboard cutouts, its heroes are unappealing and each scene is laced with logical fallacies.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Citrus fruits are not just unappealing to cats but can also be harmful.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Despite its flashy genre mash-up, Emilia Pérez is stuck with a coarse, unappealing protagonist.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), computing and sensing provides significant business incentives and societal benefits by automating tasks that are difficult, dangerous and unappealing to the workforce of the 21st century.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
Citrus fruits are not just unappealing to cats but can also be harmful.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Despite its flashy genre mash-up, Emilia Pérez is stuck with a coarse, unappealing protagonist.
—Armond White, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), computing and sensing provides significant business incentives and societal benefits by automating tasks that are difficult, dangerous and unappealing to the workforce of the 21st century.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unappealing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unappealing
Adjective
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The 24-year-old displayed all of the good, the bad and the ugly in a 25-game stretch when called up to the majors last season when starting catcher Gabriel Moreno was injured.—
Chuck Murr,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Imagine the classic tale The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen — only, in this version, the ugly duckling doesn’t mature into a beautiful swan.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 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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The Wild played a hideous third period, and the Blues got two more goals from Kyrou.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Just to give one small example: early on in the movie Bernice, who spends most of the story bedridden watching shopping channels, spots a hideous piece of clothing being advertised on television.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But Sriram’s movie — a grotesque odyssey through a place called Trashtown, which has shades of New Orleans and a hint of Los Angeles — is at least impressively strange.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2025
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The result was the grotesque spectacle of people increasingly debilitated by starvation and disease doing hard physical labor for wages that were not sufficient to keep their families alive.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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That infamously unattractive appearance led to the blobfish being declared the world’s ugliest animal as the mascot of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.—
Amanda Kooser,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The plastic surgery industrial complex only serves to enforce the unrealistic beauty standard that makes the general masses feel like our bodies are unattractive or unworthy.—
Nicola Dall'Asen,
Allure,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Unappealing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unappealing. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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