unprepossessing

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And it leads through an industrial region that is mighty unprepossessing -- little beauty until almost the end.

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  1. adjective Not overtly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript: an unprepossessing little hotel.

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  • Rhea itself was unprepossessing, just another ball of dirty ice. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • The door of his headquarters was unprepossessing, bearing in small bronze letters the inscription CLARK SAVAGE, Jr Two of the three rooms inside were enormous; with the smaller reception room and office, they took in the entire floor of the titanic structure. —  022 - The Annihilist
  • It was certainly unprepossessing, she thought, just a handful of cottages climbing up the hillside from the ferry terminal. —  StayThroughtheNight
  • His successor is one of the least suitable of men,—unprepossessing, and even forbidding, in every respect. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • She had known that the man would be completely unprepossessing, but would be the one she could truly love, and that though he had known a woman before her, he would never know one after her. —  Dragon's Gold
 

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/ənpripəˈzɛsɪŋ/
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