Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unsightly
IPA transcription: [əns'aɪtli]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: unsightly
    Meaning: unpleasant to look at; "unsightly billboards"
Usage examples
  • As yet, what I have seen of her work is but an unsightly bundle.
  • Fastened to the creeping branch, the unsightly bundle lies on the sand heaped up by the rains.
  • And will he then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly?
  • He asked them to observe Webb's pretty homestead, no longer marred by the unsightly sign upon the barn.
  • When seen in the perspective of half-a-dozen years or more, the best of our fashions strike us as grotesque, if not unsightly.
  • In that monastery was a youth whose eyelid was disfigured by an unsightly tumour, which growing daily greater, threatened the loss of the eye.
  • The Mullein moth is sure to find them out, and it behoves the careful gardener to look for and destroy the caterpillars, or he may some day find, instead of his stately Mulleins, tall stems only clothed with unsightly grey rags.