Unlovely

Unlovely things are very lovely, and this is no exception.

Track Excavator James Gurney 2008

Unlovely buildings from the postwar era, when housing was being thrown up at lightning speed, crammed the streets and dank back alleys, huddled and forlorn, covered in a mantle of industrial soot A group of Nihonin, bikers in black leather and shiny chrome studs, stared at him as he pulled up in front of the building, a crumbling, ramshackle structure that looked all but condemned.

Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

Unlovely, I rushed heedlessly among the lovely things thou hast made.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

Unlovely as her action was, I cannot help thinking that it was unpremeditated; that it was the unexpected result of some strong inward feeling.

The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Lilian Bell

Unlovely fellows indeed and clad in garments of every shape and cut, from stained home spun and tattered shirts to velvet coats be-laced and gold-braided; and beholding this tarnished and sordid finery, these clothes looted from sinking ships and blazing towns, I wondered vaguely what had become of their late owners.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

Unlovely, soiled, desolate of verdure, dumped down upon a flat of sand in a treeless waste, amid cactus, crabbed yucca, scorpions, horned toads, and rattlesnakes.

The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

Meekins the Overseer one week later was bitten by a Serpent in the Field and died an Unlovely Death.

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Unlovely at her best, when about her work in her faded calico gown and flat shoes, hair wisped into a slovenly knot, she was depressing.

Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

Unlovely at her best, when about her work in her faded calico gown and flat shoes, hair wisped into a slovenly knot, she was depressing.

Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

Unlovely decay, an air of desolation, symptoms of neglect, present a mournful sight, and one wonders how much longer the poor relic will remain.

Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890