Meaning of Unlovely | Babel Free

Definitions

An unattractive or ugly thing or person.

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Examples

“1982, United Press⟳ International, "Clearly, an ugly dog", 2 August. A hairless runt of a mutt named Chi-chi defeated them all in the 13th annual Ugliest Dog in the World contest: such unlovelies as the moth-eaten chow and the bulldog with a bad eye.”

“But the uptake of Irish studies by a range of migrant unlovelies clearly involves their expressing a quality of interest⟳ in the subject distinguishable from the harmless "inherent interest⟳" which she so values and which presumably is palpable to "anybody", other than them.”

“Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be Monsters.””

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