Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of loveliness.
- noun Want of beauty or attractiveness to the eye; plainness of feature or appearance.
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- noun The state or condition of being
unlovely ;ugliness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gorgona was but too real and that her unloveliness was a sore trial to the fine attunement of the poet's nerves.
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917
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And the story focuses on a Jewish family of startling unloveliness, all spikes and prickles and subterfuge with a helping of despotism and madness on the side.
Don’t Go Down To The Woods « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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Daniel Clowes has created a monster, but a monster who refreshes our empathy for humans in all their unloveliness.
Book Review Roundup 2010
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How is it that from beautyI have derived a type of unloveliness?
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People like Dennis the Menace, who naturally grate on us, who assault our sensibilities, really help to point out the loci of unloveliness in our own hearts.
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How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?
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The point is, to have a good larf with your lovely Liberal friends when they're indulging their inner unloveliness.
"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008
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Listening to the general secretary annunciate his list, emphasizing its clarity and unloveliness, I thought of Wis awa Szymborska, in particular the opening of "The End and The Beginning":
Two Paths for the Novel Smith, Zadie 2008
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Everything about him had that meagre fixity, that bare unloveliness.
To the Lighthouse 2002
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