What's the difference between unlovely and unpicturesque?
Unlovely
Definition:
(a.) Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The station looks unloved and there are many vacant plots of land.
(2) Albeit an unloveable, slightly scary Ron Burgundy in a 'I may now be a low level Tesco manager in a cheap suit but I still remember how to handle a stanley knife' kind of way," reckons Robert Lowery, who is forgetting that Jim White has a phone.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn McCabe The building was shallow and unlovely, really two knocked together, but it had a broad frontage, and across it in huge letters Hunt spelled out “Foxtons Estate Agents”.
(4) The harbour wall, once home to unloved fishermen's huts, is being developed into a series of galleries and restaurants, all due to open this summer.
(5) It was an unloved idea that garnered support if only because no one could think of a better one.
(6) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(7) The film-maker has already signalled he will eschew the CGI-generated environments seen in the unloved prequel series of movies in favour of real sets.
(8) Story of cities #13: Barcelona's unloved planner invents science of 'urbanisation' Read more According to several studies, air pollution alone causes 3,500 premature deaths a year in Barcelona’s metropolitan area (with a population of 3.2 million), as well as having severe effects on local ecosystems and agriculture.
(9) But, after decades of dirt-cheap fuels, energy efficiency remains unloved: 10m homes in the UK have unlagged lofts , for example.
(10) Seven years ago white was seriously unloved: fewer than one in 100 new cars got the white paint treatment.
(11) • Akti Toti Hatzi 4, +30 22970 24445 What to do The Temple of Aphaea is on the other side of the island from Aegina Town, not far above the unlovely resort of Agia Marina.
(12) Star Wars droid BB-8 is real and you can take him home Read more The suits at Disney (the parent company that currently owns everything Star Wars and keeps Lucas at a benevolent elder statesman’s distance) have been licking their chops not just about this December’s Episode VII – The Force Awakens , but also all the ancillary products kids will feel strangely hollow, unfulfilled and possibly unloved if they don’t get to own.
(13) This leaves her feeling resentful, guilty, and ultimately unlovable.
(14) A more intelligent or ruthless man, faced with marriage to an unloved woman – a professional womb, ordered in – might have chosen someone cynical; he might have made a bargain.
(15) But often, Lucy admits she feels sad and unloved if there are too many negative comments ( no argument there ).
(16) Batmanghelidjh excelled at bridging that mistrust, preaching her gospel of empathy and emphasising that the consequence of so many unloved children was a distortion of the “emotional economy” of the whole country.
(17) The government must focus on unloved sectors such as hospitality and retail, if it is to tackle Britain’s lamentable productivity record, according to a new analysis by thinktank the Institute for Public Policy Research.
(18) It is six years, after all, since 2009, the year in which the comedian’s blossoming career and reputation took an abrupt and savage hit, thanks to his unloved eponymous sketch show with Gavin & Stacey co-star Mathew Horne (“ puerile and excruciating ”, according to the New Statesman), a critically mauled movie, Lesbian Vampire Killers (“a witless mess”, said the Telegraph), and a calamitous performance hosting the Brit awards with Horne, which even Corden has acknowledged was “shit, because of ego”.
(19) Hague cannot escape the ongoing consequences of the personalisation of the Libyan campaign around the unlovely figure of Gaddafi.
(20) She was rejected by her own parents and brought up by severe and unloving grandparents, who confined her to her room for an entire year just for having gone trick-or-treating without permission.