unprepossessing

IPA: ʌnpripʌzˈɛsɪŋ

adjective

  • Unimpressive or unremarkable; dull and ordinary; nondescript.
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Examples of "unprepossessing" in Sentences

  • To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever.
  • Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud.
  • "He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer.
  • The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel.
  • And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators.
  • Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care.
  • It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself.
  • Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society.
  • 'unprepossessing' by the media and with Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden announcing on talkSPORT that 'We think she looks a bit like Eddie Large, poor woman', Susan Boyle booked herself in for an eyebrow shape, haircut and colour, and then went on a modest shopping spree.

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