unseductive

The Sunday Times sprawls on the bed, dogged but unseductive.

New Jersey Moon William Doreski 2011

I wish I had more good things to say, but Ms. Ebersole proves to be both unexpectedly unseductive and unsatisfyingly shrill, while Mr. Blakemore's staging, a couple of slick bits of slapstick notwithstanding, is efficient rather than inspired.

Tough Guys Don't Dance 2009

The very ashes of the great Lucomo prince and chieftain lying below this worthy if somewhat unseductive female would fade in horror away into the air, if one of his gods, Vertumnus, perhaps, or one of the blessed Dioscuri, should offer him such a companion or hint to him that the creature was of the same species as the round-breasted lovelinesses that sport upon the frescoes of his tomb, among the lotus flowers.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

If she goes to the bad it is in the most commonplace way and with the most unseductive seducer possible.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Literary history is an important step in that of man himself; and the unseductive coarseness of Dryden is rather a beacon than a temptation.

The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882

The buck Kanakas bake it under ground, then mash it up well with a heavy lava pestle, mix water with it until it becomes a paste, set it aside and let if ferment, and then it is poi -- and an unseductive mixture it is, almost tasteless before it ferments and too sour for a luxury afterward.

Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

The buck Kanakas bake it under ground, then mash it up well with a heavy lava pestle, mix water with it until it becomes a paste, set it aside and let if ferment, and then it is poi -- and an unseductive mixture it is, almost tasteless before it ferments and too sour for a luxury afterward.

Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

The buck Kanakas bake it under ground, then mash it up well with a heavy lava pestle, mix water with it until it becomes a paste, set it aside and let if ferment, and then it is poi -- and an unseductive mixture it is, almost tasteless before it ferments and too sour for a luxury afterward.

Roughing It 1871

The face and attitude of that unseductive Venus, wide awake and melancholy, opposite her snoring lover, seems to symbolise the indignities which women may have to endure from insolent and sottish boys with only youth to recommend them.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Zombies, pale but unseductive, have suffered from a bad image problem.

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