unloveliest

Despite her gold and white paintwork (“gleaming swan plumage,” one passenger called it), the top-heavy Hohenzollern, with her ram bow and bell-mouthed funnels, was the unloveliest royal yacht in Europe.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

Benevolence, when Simeon Brown spoke of it, seemed the grimmest and unloveliest of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

For, as flowers most exquisite spring from strangely unpromising soil, so had those two weeks of isolation and heart-hunger on the unloveliest hill-top of Northern

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

I suppose that slide rock, away up in cold, bleak, windy country above the timber-line, is absolutely the unloveliest landscape and most repulsive home ground that a man could find in the mountains and yet it is the paradise, the perfect place of a wonderful little creature that is found on the high peaks of the Rockies from California to Alaska.

Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

The nose was blunt, the chin a mere knobby challenge, and between them was the unloveliest moustache Bean had ever been compelled to observe; short, ragged, faded in streaks.

Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903

Lady Clare, feeling in every nerve her high descent and breeding, had perhaps a sense of having come down in the world, and, like many another irrational creature of her sex, she kicked madly against fate and exhibited the unloveliest side of her character.

Boyhood in Norway 1892

Lady Clare, feeling in every nerve her high descent and breeding, had perhaps a sense of having come down in the world, and, like many another irrational creature of her sex, she kicked madly against fate and exhibited the unloveliest side of her character.

Boyhood in Norway Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

To be brief, she was that wisest, but unloveliest, variety of woman, a philosopher, bearing troubles of the heart with equanimity, dispensing with all that should have been her happiness, and making the best of what remained.

The Wedding Knell 1837

To be brief, she was that wisest but unloveliest variety of woman, a philosopher, bearing troubles of the heart with equanimity, dispensing with all that should have been her happiness and making the best of what remained.

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

The club with the league's unloveliest stadium are now secure financially, with a charismatic coach, Gus Poyet, at the helm.

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