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Example sentences for "unsightliness"

Lexicographically close words:
unshorn; unshrinking; unshriven; unshuttered; unsifted; unsightly; unsigned; unsilvered; unsinkable; unsized
  1. It is this unsightliness that has created a demand for something else, but the substitutes, while capable of doing the work, are far more costly and can not be said to be as reliable under all conditions of weather.

  2. Mosses, small ferns, and fungi, such as the massive expansions of Polyporus and the more delicate plates of Hexagona apiaria and others, conceal in some degree the unsightliness of the decaying log.

  3. But once, stooping, with long-armed adroitness, to unlock the lowest drawer of the table, a madness of disgust towards the unsightliness of his own person seized on and tore him.

  4. In many places the unsightliness of the standard gauge would be objected to, nor can such a line be made very light if it has to carry, as it must, the 7 or 8 tons per axle of a full sized coal wagon (see Appendix A).

  5. The tenon is not allowed to run through the stile, and unsightliness on the edge is thus avoided.

  6. The object of working a bead or beads on matchboarding is to break the jointing of the various pieces and to aim at ornamental effect; also to prevent unsightliness should the timber shrink slightly.

  7. Do not care about the unsightliness of the aid--better a crutch than a lost limb; and do this tenderly and reverently and continually, and many a generation will still be born and pass away beneath its shadow.

  8. Moreover, the Trust is waging a battle with the District Council of Hambledon in order to prevent the Hindhead Commons from being disfigured by digging for stone for mending roads, causing unsightliness and the sad disfiguring of the commons.


  9. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsightliness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cacophony; disfigurement; inelegance; plainness