Definition of "unpleasing" []

• Not pleasing (adjective)

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• "Nor is the idea unpleasing which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing"
• "Nor is the idea unpleasing, which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing"
• "Martin Kemp has suggested that this injury, coupled with Alberti's recommendation to painters to obscure "unpleasing" features, might have been the source of Piero della Francesca's famous portrayal of the duke's profile: "Apelles painted the portrait of Antigonus only from the side of his face away from his bad eye" (Alberti, On Painting, trans."