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unlovely

Speech parts

1. unlovely - Noun

2. unlovely - Adjective

3. unlovely - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. Aldo Leopold

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. Eric Hoffer

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune. Walter Russell

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes. Willard van Orman Quine

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. Stephen Fry

Show me the professing Christian whose social character is as unlovely after profession as it was before, and though there may be an increase of knowledge and of some other things connected with religion, there is no progress. John Angell James

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