unpicturesque

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One month of routine--unpicturesque, unexciting efficiency--will accomplish more than a scandal or catastrophe.

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  • They churned along a deep lane, turned a corner and looked down on South Mardian: squat, unpicturesque, unremarkable and as small as a village could be. —  Death of a Fool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 19: 1956
  • One month of routine--unpicturesque, unexciting efficiency--will accomplish more than a scandal or catastrophe. —  Civics and Health
  • The fight was most unpicturesque, most unheroic; but it was tolerably grim for all that. —  Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
  • Though as a rule physically unpicturesque, it has some great wonder-places and beauty spots, such as the Yosemite Valley, the Grand Cańon of the Colorado, the Yellowstone Park, the Falls of Niagara, and the big trees of California, which trees it may be now remarked are conifers (Sequoia gigantea and Sequoia sempervirens), which attain a height of 400 feet. —  Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • Still again, H. G. Wells, who began his career as a clerk and continued as a teacher of science, has found in both these phases of his experience a mine of literary wealth; and Arnold Bennett, born and educated in the dreariest, most unpicturesque, apparently least inspiring, part of England, has seen in the very prosiness of the Five Towns untouched material, and has given this an enduring place in literature. —  Modern American Prose Selections
 

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