Vocabulary Word
Word: unsightly
Definition: ugly; unpleasant to look at
Definition: ugly; unpleasant to look at
Sentences Containing 'unsightly'
The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat -LRB- Fig.
I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
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