How to Use unlovely in a Sentence

unlovely

adjective
  • Sunday night is often spoiled by the unlovely thought of having to go back to school or work the next morning.
  • Two years later, he is gone, though the movie spares us the unlovely particulars of his end.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 June 2022
  • The parking lot was madness, the exterior was unlovely, and the back deck was heaven.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • But the new Indian ambition still has a strident and unlovely side.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The characters, all animals, have an unlovely, hard-plastic sheen.
    — Jane Horwitz, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Communiqués that emerge from these secret meetings are written in unlovely party jargon.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • The elevator shafts were starting to emerge when the lockdown hit, two unlovely stubs of concrete growing out of the foundation.
    — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • And this was something that goes by the very unlovely acronym of a BVLOS flight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2024
  • And not the pretty, picture-postcard ones, either, but those in the unlovely, lively outer neighborhoods.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2020
  • The particular atmosphere of unlovely Belleville is deftly conveyed … yet there is beauty here too.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The insights are persuasive, but the language is decidedly unlovely.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The song is unlovely and jagged, the melody’s sweetness repeatedly punctured by the squawks of their habitual bickering.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The baked five cheese macaroni and cheese, a small and unlovely cup that hides so much depth and possibility, begs for perhaps crispy breadcrumbs to lend texture and toastiness.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • Michaela itself is housed in an unlovely gray office block opposite a London Underground train station.
    — Flora Carr, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Stuart writes beautifully, with marvelous attunement to the poetry in the unlovely and the mundane.
    — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Today South Wales is battered and neglected, its lovely countryside studded with some unlovely towns.
    — Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • The tree house was situated in an unlovely strip of forest a few hundred yards wide, squeezed between a six-lane highway and a freight rail line, on the drab gray edge of Vancouver.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Lupe's unlovely appearance and McKinnon's sassy attitude make the loyal goat the best character in the movie.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The Bible teaches that God is Love – infinite and always available, with no unlovely or unloving element.
    — Larissa Snorek, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025
  • The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain, a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Star Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The dentist himself is an unlovely specimen — racist, ungenerous and vain — a man whose two ruling goals are to become a Freemason and to continue his blood line.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The American university today has, bizarrely, become a place dominated by anger, fear, and self-loathing, all wrapped in an unlovely cloak of self-righteousness.
    — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Many were aghast at BMW i division’s fractal styling themes, embodied in the unlovely time-travelers iX and i7.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • David Longstreth makes music in a former cabinet-builder’s workshop on the east side of Los Angeles, in an unlovely, industrial part of town.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • These include a cluster in Inner Mongolia, a northern province of windswept deserts, grasslands and unlovely industrial towns.
    — The Economist, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Fueled by alcohol and believing her seductive charms are still alive and well, Leslie works it hard, and Riseborough is fearless in the unlovely desperation that emerges.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Of the two streets, Second Avenue, an unlovely jumble of tenements and postwar apartment buildings, seems the less-likely candidate for retail role model.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Now the future is here, a hulking mass on an unlovely corner at the border of Hollywood and West Hollywood, surrounded by luxury apartments and empty lots.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past 13 years, the glamor category has been handily beating unlovely value, the longest period in history for which what's supposed to be the market's bargain basement has lagged.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • From its inception, back in 2012, Mann’s relentless litigation has been marked out by an unlovely mixture of mendacity and egomania.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 Feb. 2024

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