When it is young, it is quite helpless, its very long legs being unable to support its body, which is entirely bare of plumage, and has a very unprepossessing appearance.
It is an ugly, ungainly kind of beast, and is rendered very unprepossessing to the eye by the bald patches which are mostly found upon its hide.
The groom, many years the bride's senior, and of strikinglyunprepossessing appearance, was a Cuban of great wealth.
Straight house have been passed, we are once more in the region of unprepossessing chaos.
In spite of the rather unprepossessingappearance of the youth the girls were glad to see him.
But they saw none of the unprepossessing creatures.
This, from theirunprepossessing appearance, we were not well-disposed to do.
Some of them had the ends of their necklaces attached to their ear-rings, and then looped up to the chignon behind, which had a very elegant appearance, if anything could look elegant on such unprepossessing dames.
Patsy Doyle was an unprepossessing little thing, at first sight.
After stopping at the post office, Arthur drove down a little side street to a weather-beaten, unprepossessing building which bore the word "Restaurant" painted in dim white letters upon its one window.
Over the unprepossessing features of Bindle there came a vacant look, and over those of the Professor one of triumph.
Unprepossessing as most of the colliers' homes were, Lowrie's cottage was a trifle less inviting than the majority.
She longed to know something definite of them--to get a little nearer to their unprepossessing life.
As there were a couple of spruce-looking runners at the railway station for the Hotel Royal, a native hostelry, I gave them my grips and was driven through the unprepossessing streets of the city.
The interior of the building, with its unprepossessing facade of four stories belies its external appearance.
The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely and unprepossessing male Thornes in red coats by Kneller, each Thorne having been let into a panel in the wainscoting, in the proper manner.
Mr. Harding still rubbed his hands and still sat silent, gazing up into Mr. Slope's unprepossessing face.
The Khan's son, a most unprepossessing young man, called on me, and I received him under the trees, a number of retainers armed with long guns standing round the edge of the carpet.
I do not much mind sharing a stable with Boy, but I "draw the line" at buffaloes, and came out again into the frosty air, into an inhospitable and altogether unprepossessing crowd.
Augustine, which I much wanted to see, but seemed in most respects to be an unprepossessing church.
I begin really to wonder whether I shall see a west front before I leave Italy which is not a purely unnecessary and unprepossessing sham!
She was very plain in person, andunprepossessing in manners.
Though he was small in stature, and very unprepossessing in appearance and manners, Francis still evinced in his government a considerable degree of good judgment and of energy.
Francis was very plain and unprepossessing in countenance, and shy and awkward in his manners.
You will at the same time come to a spot of unprepossessing aspect, whose chief claim to notoriety lies in its shell-holes and broken-down houses.
His emotions lay close to the surface and wrote themselves on his unprepossessing exterior with an impartial touch.
The expression of his unprepossessingfeatures indicated what was passing in his mind, his mood was one of sullen rebellion.
She would no doubt prove an excellent manager, and she was so unprepossessing in every way, she would be unlikely to be appropriated by any widowed missionary.
There are few men upon whom kindness and gentleness will not make more or less impression; but our unprepossessinghero is of that unfavored few.
It is much to the credit of Pitt that he should have found out his merits, and having found them out have ventured to place so great a responsibility upon so young and unprepossessing a person.
It chanced that he had that very morning encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name.
A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior.
While the ladies were waiting, a person ofunprepossessing aspect came out of the restaurant.
Think, Sir, what I suffered during those few brief minutes while the coach lurched through the narrow streets of Suresnes, and I had perforce to listen to the protestations of undying love from this unprepossessing female!
Having made myself somewhat presentable upon leaving the steerage of the steamer, my trunk on a dray, I proceeded to an unprepossessing hotel kept by a colored man on Kearny street.
The inferior classes go about almost naked and live in long, unprepossessing structures, one story high, divided into single rooms, rude and uncleanly.
Facing the Grande Place, and only a few steps from the Belfry, is the Hotel de Ville, an unprepossessing structure externally, although the historians say that it was once much better looking.
To our further alarm our guide presently turned into a mostunprepossessing street on which several drinking places were still open, or were only on the point of closing.
But his manner was so gracious that I fancy one would soon forget his ugliness and think only of the real man shut inside that unprepossessing shell.
But one of the courtiers said, 'Madame, why did you kiss that extremely unprepossessing man?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unprepossessing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grim; humble; ubiquitous; ugly; unsightly
