The Garden Dart (Agrotis nigricans) This is another dingy moth, whose general appearance is so unattractive that the tyro might be inclined to neglect it.
Thus, a brilliantly coloured caterpillar may change to a dull and unattractive chrysalis, from which may emerge a butterfly or moth that partakes of the colours of neither.
Philip, who had now wearied of his elderly and unattractive wife, and also of being regarded as only the husband of the queen, was rejoiced at the summons of his father, Charles V.
She was eleven years older than Philip, and was unattractive in person and a bigot in religion.
For three nights has sleep forsaken my unattractive eyelids, and, tossing and turning on a couch deprived of all comfort, I could only repeat, 'The Ideal Man is the Divine Dragon Emperor!
I imagine that all its inhabitants, by the law of the survival of the fittest, must be immune from fever, which is certainly not the case in that most unattractive spot Colon.
She had never thought much about her looks, but she wondered if she was as unattractive as Ben Weatherstaff and she also wondered if she looked as sour as he had looked before the robin came.
She had a very pretty manner, too, and Mary has the most unattractive ways I ever saw in a child.
Could it be possible that the girl was in earnest after all, that she was really attached to this most heavy and unattractive young man?
Nothing but persistent, slavish work through many years will enable one to speak Japanese well; and no one should come here who is not willing to stick to an unattractive task until it is accomplished.
On the contrary, they hold that when misfortunes and calamities make this life unattractive it is the part of wisdom to end it.
My dear, I was always a plain and unattractive person, just as I am at this day," answered Margaret in a voice of infinite gentleness.
He went out presently, the rain having ceased, and sauntered down the unattractive "Main Street" of Cloon.
But a woman with such a voice might do almost anything, you plain andunattractive Miss Mildmay!
Four hours of church service of so unattractive a character, and that in mid-summer!
A union mission school had lately been established in the very heart of this unattractive district, and it was sorely in need of workers.
And while the room assuredly looked bare and unattractive enough, it seemed nevertheless a paradise to him, a paradise from which he was about to be driven thus unjustly and unfairly, it appeared to him.
It was one of the better peculiarities of the Seldwyla folk that they were averse to wed unattractive or unamiable women just for the sake of a somewhat larger dowry.
Though the Crauta Sutras are indispensable for the right understanding of the sacrificial ritual, they are, from any other point of view, a most unattractive form of literature.
In spite, however, of their highly artificial and involved style, many really poetical thoughts may be found embedded in what to the European taste is an unattractive setting.
In the genus Leathesia we have other unattractive weeds, the jointed and forked threads of which are all united together into tuber-like fronds that are common on rocks and weeds between the tide-marks.
The order contains some of our most beautiful weeds, while some of its members are of a very dark colour and unattractive form.
At a local social function he took the prize one day for being the most unpopular man in the community; and this caused him to sit up nights, and study himself as others saw him flitting across his unattractive and uneventful stage.
To secure a final footing in society he had acquired a collection of obsolete paintings, which were very unattractive and vulgar, and could only have been of value as heirlooms to some private family.
The smell of the fermented mahua and the refuse water lying about make the village liquor-shop an unattractive place.
He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious phase was so disagreeable and unattractive that it did small credit to Newman.
To himself, moreover, it was a highly unattractive topic, and he was thoroughly glad to have it ignored as it had been; but if she alluded to the matter herself that was another thing, and he must say something.
Later Ruth read it to her own extreme satisfaction; but at the time it did seem odd to her that anyone should desire a walk on so chilly and unattractive a night.
Yet another point to which the attention of British manufacturers may be drawn is the unattractive manner in which the cheaper classes of goods are turned out.
You shake me off; you see me again; find I have been somewhat improved by a stay in New York; find I am not wholly unattractive to others.
I've had dealings with many unattractive characters in the course of my long business career, Mr. Armstrong, but with none so repellent in every way as Dillworthy.
In such fetichism the odor of the woman alone, whoever she may be and however unattractive she may be, suffices to furnish complete sexual satisfaction.
In some neurotic persons this sensibility, as Féré shows, may exist in so morbid a degree that even the contact of the sensitive spot with unattractive persons or inanimate objects may produce the orgasm.
The method of instruction was tedious and uninspiring; text-books were unattractive and dull.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unattractive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
