Definition of "unlovely" []

• Not deemed visually attractive. (adjective)
• Not pleasant; disagreeable: an unlovely personality. (adjective)

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• "I find writers whose writing is lovely in unlovely settings so interesting."
• "Preston's strange heat and sudden Southernism, Mr. Davis's wile and greatness, a coming disputed election, quarrels between the people where I was born and the people where I was brought up, divisions and jealousies, floated before my mind in unlovely and confused visions."
• ""Others called her unlovely, but in her spirit she was beautiful, and I think as time passed that came to be reflected in her physical aspect."