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unpretty
adjective
uk /ʌnˈprɪt.i/ us /ʌnˈprɪt̬.i/
not attractive to look at:
Unpretty it may be, but the sculpture has become a striking landmark.
not pleasant:
What emerges is an unpretty picture of life in the colony.
You don’t want the filling to seep out of the pie, it’s rather unpretty.
There's a lot of pressure to be pretty and desirable all the time, and I've tried so much to be unpretty and weird.
He went out of his way to make unpretty movies.
Behind even the most glamorous of sports, the training is generally gruelling and unpretty.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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back end
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bleakly
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gracelessly
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hideous
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pretty-pretty
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
unpoetic
unshapely
unsightly
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