Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Unpleasant or offensive to look at; unattractive. See Synonyms at ugly.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disagreeable to the eye; ugly; deformed; repulsive.
Wiktionary
- adj. displeasing to the eye
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unpleasant to look at
Examples
“In many instances, doctored coins ‘turn’ at a later time, as unintended byproducts of doctoring processes result in unsightly delayed chemical reactions or the decomposing of added matter on the doctored coins.”
“This is an interesting issue, Dan ... the increase in unsightly and not-so-urban townhomes.”
“I try and do that often, but I find that until I do recycle them, they end up cluttering up drawers in unsightly balls.”
“The use of sealing-wax in India dates from old times and the material, though coarse and unsightly, is still preferred by Anglo – Indians because it resists heat whereas the best English softens like pitch.”
“The former 3's pleasing proportions are retained, down to the curt overhangs, chop-tail trunk, and tight-fitting wheels (designers call the unsightly empty space between tire and fender the "dead-cat zone").”
Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource
“There was one object in the landscape which a stranger would probably have overlooked, or might perhaps have called unsightly, but it was familiar to every eye in the village, and endowed by our people with the honors of an ancient landmark -- the tall gray trunk of a dead and branchless pine, which had been standing on the crest of the eastern hill, at the time of the foundation of the village, and which was still erect, though rocked since then by a thousand storms.”
“In the 19th century, many American cities banned public appearances by "unsightly" individuals.”
The Washington Post: Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination
“After their mutual encounter, they share with one another what they saw and discover that each caught a glimpse of a different facet of Jesus' life and work: as an infant, an "unsightly" human being, a pillar of light, a lamb hanging on the tree of life, and so forth.”
“Ugly laws attempted to accomplish what cities are now aiming to achieve with sit/lie and anti-panhandling ordinances: to reinforce social boundaries and marginalize those considered "unsightly" in the newly preserved historic downtowns of the closed city.”
The Huffington Post: Paul Boden: The Quality of Whose Life? Part 3
“Regardless of culinary comparison, everyone seems to agree that cellulite is "unsightly," "dreaded," and "humiliating" or, as one article simply said – it just looks bad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unsightly’.
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light, night, wight, hight, knight, fight, bright, right, fright, bight, eight, might and 174 more...
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
fbharjo a word my mother used to describe my room when I was young Sep 10, 2010
oroboros UnsiGhtLY Apr 22, 2008