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Example sentences for "unsightly"

Lexicographically close words:
unshrinking; unshriven; unshuttered; unsifted; unsightliness; unsigned; unsilvered; unsinkable; unsized; unskilful
  1. The =rubbish corner= should be at the furthest extremity of the garden, though it need not be unsightly if a screen is placed around it.

  2. Of course, one could leave them in the box during the summer, if it were not for the unsightly decaying leaves, which =must on no account be cut off=.

  3. If the groove be run through the board it looks very unsightly when the mould is finished.

  4. This method is preferred on the best class of work, because it shows no unsightly joint at the inside of the door frame.

  5. For this prodigal brother of ours has become a very unsightly and unattractive object during these thousands of years of his sojourn among the pigsties and corn husks.

  6. Those who use it for this purpose are able to say this in its favour: it brings about the opening of the abscess without the unsightly hæmorrhage attending the use of the knife, and at the same time just as effectually empties it.

  7. The protests of citizens who knew that the underground system is better than the cheap, unsightly trolley system and had been proved safer, had blocked the United Railroads project.

  8. It was tied across with cord, and fastened down in every corner with unsightly dabs of wax.

  9. She exclaimed, and at the same moment she wept; but both became her, nor was she rendered unsightly by her tears.

  10. Some there are, who distort their face with an unsightly grin; another, when she is joyous in her laughter, you would take to be crying.

  11. Another makes a harsh noise, and screams in a disagreeable manner; just as the unsightly she-ass brays by the rough mill-stone.

  12. A multitude comes to be instructed, both pretty and ugly damsels; and the unsightly are ever more in number than the good-looking.

  13. Confound those great market lorries," he muttered, looking round the room with its cabinets and shelves filled with the strange and weird, beautiful and unsightly curios he had brought back from every corner of the globe.

  14. Let it gradually come to a boil, and skim very carefully; keep it gently simmering, and on no account let it boil fast, as the fish would have a very unsightly appearance.

  15. They must be kept scrupulously clean, otherwise they will render the meat cooked in them unsightly and unwholesome.

  16. Otherwise, patching, which is uneconomical from the time it consumes, and is unsightly in point of appearance, will have to be resorted to.

  17. This will leave white, unsightly blotches on the roof, but after the white lead is dry a few dabs with the red roof paint will make the white patches the same color as the surrounding tin and effectually conceal them.

  18. Of course, a roof may be mended with tar, but that is always unsightly and insists upon running when heated by a hot sun; besides, it is most difficult to conceal and does not come ready for use like white lead.

  19. It is to be deplored that this interesting relic is built in on all sides by unsightly houses.

  20. She came here, Stuart, to explain things which she thought put you in an unsightly light--and to say that whatever blame there was belonged to her.

  21. Where an unsightly fence had confined a somewhat ragged yard, low stone walls, flower bordered, went around a lawn as trim as plush.

  22. The duomo, if a small matter after that of Parenzo, if absolutely unsightly as seen from without, is not without its importance.

  23. I could not realize that in this unsightly hole I beheld all that was left of those physical wonders which filled this extraordinary region.

  24. If it has been excluded from its rightful quarters, it is because the idea is prevalent that it cannot be grown unless in the unsightly way that finds favour in the kitchen garden.

  25. And she had been ashamed to say anything about it--had never let anyone, even her maid, see her feet, which were about the only unsightly part of her.

  26. There is much inveighing against hypocrisy, a vice unsightly rather than desperately wicked.

  27. There, closely braced And neatly fitted, it compresses hard The prominent and most unsightly bones, And binds the shoulders flat.

  28. If June mend her bower now, your hand left unsightly By plucking the roses,--my June will do rightly.

  29. Thus much we stopped Of babble that had else grown print: and lopped From your trim bay-tree this unsightly bough-- Smart's who translated Horace!

  30. Later, an unsightly wooden walk replaced the gravel ones from the lodge to the front entrance.

  31. More mature pigs came to market on their own legs, and very long, feeble legs they were, for a more unsightly beast than a Breton pig was never seen out of a toy Noah's ark.

  32. Beauty can only be conserved by the planting of trees, by keeping the waters pure and clear, by using waste products so that there will be no unsightly piles of refuse.

  33. Many rivers, with beds choked and obstructed by the unsightly rocks and debris deposited by the annual floods, and for the same reason, dry for many months in each year, will again become navigable.

  34. I know that as a spirit, in that land of golden sunlight, freed from the burden of this unsightly prison of flesh, I shall be clothed in a spiritual body as symmetrically perfect as my highest ideal can picture.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awful; bedraggled; blemished; careless; chintzy; dilapidated; disfigured; draggled; frowzy; grubby; hideous; homely; inelegant; informal; loose; marred; messy; mussy; negligent; plain; poky; ragged; ruinous; scraggly; seedy; shabby; shoddy; slack; slatternly; slipshod; sloppy; slovenly; sluttish; sordid; spoiled; squalid; tacky; tattered; ubiquitous; ugly; unaesthetic; unattractive; unbeautiful; uncomely; unhandsome; unkempt; unlovely; unsightly; untidy