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- adjective dated, 19th century
superlative form ofunsightly : mostunsightly .
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Examples
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Driven by a vain love of swift traffic, she assails your ear with an incessant din and your eye with the unsightliest railroad that human ingenuity has ever contrived.
American Sketches 1908 Charles Whibley 1894
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As far as downstate New York, Brooklyn Banks is both the best place to skate and the site of not my worst, but my unsightliest injury: a torn elbow that ruined a white shirt and made for an interesting subway ride home.
The New Yorker Ian Crouch 2011
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