unaesthetic

(ˌʌniːsˈθɛtɪk)

adj

1. not beautiful

2. not in good taste

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Adj.

unaesthetic - violating aesthetic canons or requirements; deficient in tastefulness or beauty; "inaesthetic and quite unintellectual"; "peered through those inaesthetic spectacles"

inaesthetic

Translations

inesthétique

antiestetico

unaesthetic

unesthetic (US) [ˌʌniːsˈθetɪk] ADJ → antiestético

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unaesthetic

, (US) unesthetic

adj → unästhetisch

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You will excuse these precautions, but I am a man of somewhat retiring, and I might even say refined, tastes, and there is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

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Likewise her feminine eye took in the clothes he wore, the cheap and unaesthetic cut, the wrinkling of the coat across the shoulders, and the series of wrinkles in the sleeves that advertised bulging biceps muscles.

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While Baguio managed to recover somehow, it was soon taken over by traditional politicians and extractive institutions, which oversaw an unsustainable, unaesthetic and, above all, irresponsible process of reconstruction.

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Moreover, a hop during pirouette performance is an "unaesthetic adjustment [that] is not considered 'successful' in dance." (20)

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