Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not beautiful; having no beauty; not possessing qualities that delight the senses, especially the eye and ear.

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Examples

  • I will not review these things fully, nor will I recall, except in the briefest manner, the usual perfidiousness of the moving-man, who, as heretofore, came two hours late, and then arranged upon the pavement all the unbeauteous articles of our household, leaving them bare and wretched in the broad light of day while he thrust into the van the pieces of which we were justly proud.

    The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I am sure, in spite of the success of 'Nourhalma,' that the era of poetry has passed; and, moreover, it certainly seems to have given place to the very baldest and most unbeauteous forms of prose!

    Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

  • Behold, a beautiful soul has been set in a body unbeauteous and through thine act, and god though I be, I cannot take back the gift that I have given. "

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • "I will own that I had ever thought of them as strange, unbeauteous red things a man almost held in fear, and whose ugliness a woman but loved because she was near angel; but this one --" and he drew nearer still with a grave countenance -- "surely it looks not like the rest.

    His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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