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单词 unappealing
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Definition of unappealing in English:

unappealing

adjectiveʌnəˈpiːlɪŋˌənəˈpilɪŋ
  • Not inviting or attractive.

    无感染力的;不吸引人的

    the company faces some unappealing choices

    公司面临无奈的选择。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Bushnell's writing has similar deadpan timing, taking the depressing and unappealing and rendering it hilarious.
    • So if you've realised how unappealing walking around in the cold is, then go get warm in Teddy Hall and acquaint yourself with a little Bernard Shaw.
    • He found many of the villages of the Moselle region dirty and unappealing, but the countryside often attractive.
    • The church, in a lot of ways, is becoming unappealing to the younger members of the generations, in its traditionalism and ceremony.
    • But whereas we now also find the latter dated and their humour unappealing, Wodehouse remains in demand.
    • The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
    • Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
    • The sauce was tasty, as were the ingredients, save the ham, which had an unappealing flavour.
    • No matter how keen you are to show off the fruits of a fortnight's sunbathing, excessive cleavage or leg can look cheap and unappealing.
    • It's Valentine's Day but fortunately my wife and I both find the idea of dictated romance unappealing.
    • I can report that the unappealing brown appearance was perfectly matched by the unappetising brown perfume.
    • In this story, as in many others in the collection, ambition is made more unappealing than the quiet expectation of failure.
    • But if it had been tedious and unappealing then that will not have mattered one jot to City, more a glowing endorsement of a job well done.
    • The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.
    • The jobs tend to be eagerly sought, especially by women, whose other prospects for earning an income can be very unappealing.
    • There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
    • She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing.
    • However, that pram-like hood is unappealing from the inside, and the car does flex a little over deep potholes.
    • If the pain, suffering and fatalities that make war unappealing to the masses are removed, then so will be much of the moral inhibitions against it.
    • I can't help wondering how Wood could bring himself to read as much of such a big book, so grimly unappealing to him, as he seems to have done.
    Synonyms
    unpalatable, unappetizing, unpleasant, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting, unattractive

Derivatives

  • unappealingly

  • adverb
    • I am not mathematically educated enough to critique his methods, but his public statements are unappealingly arrogant.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Meanwhile, adventurous styling elsewhere in the market began to make Volvos look unappealingly out of step and old-fashioned, in dire need of visual updating.
      • Part of the idea seems to be to present merchandise unappealingly.
      • Self-assured as opposed to unappealingly cocksure, Evolution Flight would be a towering achievement based on any criteria you chose to elect.
      • And its buttery blood-orange sauce turned out to be unappealingly sweet, with none of the citrus tang that might have made the dish sing.

Definition of unappealing in US English:

unappealing

adjectiveˌənəˈpēliNGˌənəˈpilɪŋ
  • Not inviting or attractive.

    无感染力的;不吸引人的

    the company faces some unappealing choices

    公司面临无奈的选择。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, that pram-like hood is unappealing from the inside, and the car does flex a little over deep potholes.
    • The jobs tend to be eagerly sought, especially by women, whose other prospects for earning an income can be very unappealing.
    • I can report that the unappealing brown appearance was perfectly matched by the unappetising brown perfume.
    • Being sick is bad, bad, bad, childish and despicable, unappealing and unladylike.
    • The appealing fragments are short and scrappy, the unappealing prose verbose and sometimes impenetrable.
    • But if it had been tedious and unappealing then that will not have mattered one jot to City, more a glowing endorsement of a job well done.
    • I can't help wondering how Wood could bring himself to read as much of such a big book, so grimly unappealing to him, as he seems to have done.
    • It's Valentine's Day but fortunately my wife and I both find the idea of dictated romance unappealing.
    • The church, in a lot of ways, is becoming unappealing to the younger members of the generations, in its traditionalism and ceremony.
    • Bushnell's writing has similar deadpan timing, taking the depressing and unappealing and rendering it hilarious.
    • The choices of main courses were unappealing and didn't taste any better than they sounded.
    • If the pain, suffering and fatalities that make war unappealing to the masses are removed, then so will be much of the moral inhibitions against it.
    • In this story, as in many others in the collection, ambition is made more unappealing than the quiet expectation of failure.
    • The sauce was tasty, as were the ingredients, save the ham, which had an unappealing flavour.
    • No matter how keen you are to show off the fruits of a fortnight's sunbathing, excessive cleavage or leg can look cheap and unappealing.
    • So if you've realised how unappealing walking around in the cold is, then go get warm in Teddy Hall and acquaint yourself with a little Bernard Shaw.
    • There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
    • But whereas we now also find the latter dated and their humour unappealing, Wodehouse remains in demand.
    • She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing.
    • He found many of the villages of the Moselle region dirty and unappealing, but the countryside often attractive.
    Synonyms
    unpalatable, unappetizing, unpleasant, distasteful, disagreeable, uninviting, unattractive
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