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  • adverb In an unappealing manner.

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  • adverb in an unappealing manner

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Examples

  • We were quick to wrap towels around our exposed and suddenly unappealingly white stomachs before we stepped into flip-flops and headed for the pool.

    Twinsburg Margaret LaFleur 2011

  • "The Revolution Business" because the other jacket/cover images in the series were so much more blah; I can't scan "Berserker Lord" and derive anything meaningful from it except I won't like the book; and "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" makes me think that Nielsen was channeling Stephan Martiniere, whose work I find unappealingly samey-samey

    Book Cover Smackdown! Berserker Lord (Chaosbound) vs. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms vs. The Revolution Business 2009

  • In an unappealingly self-pitying letter to Mollie two days later, Twain described the drunken sequence of the article, adding that he had suffered, “nothing but trouble & vexation” ever since.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • In an unappealingly self-pitying letter to Mollie two days later, Twain described the drunken sequence of the article, adding that he had suffered, “nothing but trouble & vexation” ever since.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • And there's the small matter that Jules appears to dig sex with Paul (though it's filmed as unappealingly as the Nic-Jules duos).

    Erica Abeel: THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT IS THE REST OF AMERICA? 2010

  • Vincent Astor, twenty years old when his unappealingly acquisitive father drowned on the Titanic, displayed a more conscientious attitude towards his great fortune.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something.

    Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul 2008

  • • The insurance industry's formularies, however, are not "unappealingly narrow" because they "need to keep customers."

    Merrill Goozner: The Right Prescription 2008

  • If the insurance industry's formularies aren't going to be "unappealingly narrow," how are they going to weed out useless but pricey me-too drugs, the best way to hold down prices in the long run?

    Merrill Goozner: The Right Prescription 2008

  • Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory.

    Give the voters hope 2008

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