unpleasing
IPA: ʌnpɫˈɛzɪŋ
adjective
- Not pleasing; unpleasant.
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Examples of "unpleasing" in Sentences
- It looked pretty dirty .. but in an unpleasing sort of way.
- Nor is the idea unpleasing which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing
- Nor is the idea unpleasing, which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing
- If the situation is unpleasing, you compromise with your conscience when you make yourself a party to it.
- Why had he not simply divorced her, as he later did Anne of Cleves when he found her unpleasing as a wife?
- The Coens seem to have gone to some considerable effort to pick some of the most unpleasing looking characters around.
- What does advocating the Federal government step in and halt development by landowners just because you find it aesthetically unpleasing have anything to do with the “middle ground?”
- She was a fair-featured, blondish woman, originally not unpleasing of appearance, but now with lines all deepened and hardened as on the faces of men who have endured much weather-beat.
- Martin Kemp has suggested that this injury, coupled with Alberti's recommendation to painters to obscure "unpleasing" features, might have been the source of Piero della Francesca's famous portrayal of the duke's profile: "Apelles painted the portrait of Antigonus only from the side of his face away from his bad eye" (Alberti, On Painting, trans.
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