as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
strip-mining leaves an unsightly gash in the landscape
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Recent Examples of unsightly
His debut featured one hit and two strikeouts in an unsightly 9-4 loss best known for the Yankees losing Aaron Judge for about two weeks due to right elbow flexor strain.
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Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Workers dredged the Great Brook afterward, using bulldozers to clear unsightly logjams (which can act as natural flood barriers), and rechannelled the stream.
—John Seabrook, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
In the pursuit of an aesthetic chore routine, ditch the unsightly plastic brooms, mops, shovels, and spades in favor of sturdy wooden and metal pieces, suggests Jacqueline Goncalves, founder and principal designer of Moksa Studio.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
The money being spent on roster building means more pressure on coaches and players to avoid these unsightly upsets and, in all likelihood, more backlash when a $30 million team loses to a team with a payroll closer to $1 million.
—Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 July 2025
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Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Workers dredged the Great Brook afterward, using bulldozers to clear unsightly logjams (which can act as natural flood barriers), and rechannelled the stream.
—John Seabrook, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
In the pursuit of an aesthetic chore routine, ditch the unsightly plastic brooms, mops, shovels, and spades in favor of sturdy wooden and metal pieces, suggests Jacqueline Goncalves, founder and principal designer of Moksa Studio.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
The money being spent on roster building means more pressure on coaches and players to avoid these unsightly upsets and, in all likelihood, more backlash when a $30 million team loses to a team with a payroll closer to $1 million.
—Austin Meek, New York Times, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsightly
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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“Unsightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsightly. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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