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Unappealing   /ˌənəpˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Unappealing

adjective
1.
(of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings.  Synonyms: unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic.
2.
Not able to attract favorable attention.  "Was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess"





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"Unappealing" Quotes from Famous Books



... I may impart, if I say that St. Paul's always seemed a dispersed and interrupted St. Peter's in its structure and decoration, and a very hard, unsympathetic, unappealing Westminster Abbey in its mortuary records. The monuments of the Abbey are often grotesque enough, but where they are so they are in the taste of times far enough back to have become rococo and charming. I do not mind a bronze Death starting out of a marble ...
— London Films • W.D. Howells


Words linked to "Unappealing" :   drama, unattractive, appealing, sympathetic, off-putting


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