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  • adjective Not wonderful; unpleasant or sordid.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ wonderful

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Examples

  • As Reason. tv explained in "Earmarks: The Alien Menace," such projects may amount to a small portion of the federal budget, but they are the gateway drug (and not in a good way) to massive and unrestrained spending on all things unwise and unwonderful.

    Reason Magazine 2009

  • As Reason. tv explained in "Earmarks: The Alien Menace," such projects may amount to a small portion of the federal budget, but they are the gateway drug (and not in a good way) to massive and unrestrained spending on all things unwise and unwonderful.

    Reason Magazine 2009

  • Which is pretty unwonderful considering "both positions could play key roles in the administration's policies on climate change, marine conservation and other environmental issues," and that

    TakePart Social Action Network™ 2009

  • The environment/atmosphere here has just become something ... well ... unwonderful (you all noticed that BB no longer claims to be a directory of wonderful things ', because it insults its most loyal viewers.

    Boing Boing Moderation Policy - Boing Boing 2009

  • Then you’ll get an earful about how unwonderful I really am.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • Then you’ll get an earful about how unwonderful I really am.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • Then you’ll get an earful about how unwonderful I really am.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • Then you’ll get an earful about how unwonderful I really am.

    Lifted Wendy Toliver 2010

  • I know I’m not torn up about my abortion, but then I’m an unnatural, unwonderful woman who never wants children.

    Voting for pro-life politicians increases abortion 2004

  • Baratunde's Posterous posted this unwonderful video produced by The National Organization for Marriage, describing it as "Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage."

    Boing Boing 2009

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