as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
an unattractive, awkward baby bird
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Recent Examples of unattractive
Our thorough analysis encompassing growth, profitability, financial stability, and valuation metrics uncovers fundamental weaknesses that render the stock unattractive for new investors at this time.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
That’s the bond market, and Trump’s massively expensive domestic policy agenda, his tariffs and even his constant blasting of Powell have made bonds relatively unattractive to investors.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
And the most unattractive thing in the world to me is a quitter.
—EW.com, 30 July 2025
But low interest rates resulted in unattractive investments with bond yields depressed, undermining a key source of investment returns for public pensions.
—Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
That’s the bond market, and Trump’s massively expensive domestic policy agenda, his tariffs and even his constant blasting of Powell have made bonds relatively unattractive to investors.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
And the most unattractive thing in the world to me is a quitter.
—EW.com, 30 July 2025
But low interest rates resulted in unattractive investments with bond yields depressed, undermining a key source of investment returns for public pensions.
—Dan Doonan, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unattractive
Adjective
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The stan fighting quickly turned ugly; a fan posted a racist meme of Huda as the police officer who murdered George Floyd, with Olandria’s face pasted on Floyd’s.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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This obviously created some hard feelings and things got very ugly.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Aug. 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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But the promise turned into disappointment during the Rockies’ hideous first half of the season.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
19 July 2025
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The last two decades spent without a Devil Wears Prada sequel started to feel a little bit like enduring a 20-year hideous skirt convention.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Suddenly the menace is no longer just the question of whether Keith can be trusted, but something far more shocking, grotesque, bizarre.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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As Hall began to test the waters with his jailhouse interlocutor (Taron Egerton) by getting ever more grotesque, his voice dropped down a register.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Unattractive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unattractive. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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