unattractiveness

(ˌʌnəˈtræktɪvnɪs)

1. the condition of not appealing to the senses or mind through beauty, form, character, etc

2. the condition of not arousing interest

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Unattractiveness

See Also: UNDESIRABILITY

Disgusting, like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of flies —Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Furniture) emanating bad taste like a cold draft —Milan Kundera
Lurid as a porcelain souvenier —Derek Walcott
(It sounded) obscene, like a rarely glimpsed body part —Lorrie Moore
Plain as cement sidewalks. Plain as bread crust —Jean Thompson
Ugly and fat as a maggot —Miles Gibson
Ugly and indesctructible as the aluminum beer can —Stephen Minot
See Also: PERMANENCE
Ugly as a hairless monkey —Margaret Mitchell
Ugly as a hatful of assholes —Geoffrey Wolff
Ugly as a mud fence —American colloquialism, attributed to Southeast
Southerners often elaborated on this as follows: “Ugly as a mud fence daubed with tadpoles.”
(He was like most new babies as) ugly as an artichoke —Anne Sexton
Ugly as sin —Maria Edgeworth
Ugly … like a great black spider —Rosamund Pilcher
Unappealing as a meringue with hardly any crust —Anon
As erotically stimulating as a mouthful of sardines —Ira Wood

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

unattractiveness - an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers

ugliness - qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses

shapelessness - the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape

attractiveness - sexual allure

Translations

unattractiveness

[ˈʌnəˈtræktɪvnɪs] N → falta f de atractivo

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unattractiveness

n → Unschönheit f; (of woman) → geringe Attraktivität; the unattractiveness of the offer → das unattraktive or nicht verlockende Angebot

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