Unlovely \Un*love"ly\, a. Not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant. -- {Un*love"li*ness}, n.
Perhaps the hideous muddle of the Festival Hall itself - a shopping mall in Hades, with its restaurants and bars and stalls and side-shows of amateur dancing and exhibitions of the unlovely and trumpery - has percolated onto the stage.
Charles Cusick-Smith provides a skewed and unlovely front-cloth of a Tyrolean resort, which rises to reveal a set for White Horse Inn.
Subsidiarity is an unlovely word of uncertain meaning.
Parade marchers embodied the necessary and the unlovely.
Once signed by the Queen it will be challenged in the high court on technical grounds. That should keep the Conservatives quarrelling among themselves through the summer, but the unlovely prospect does not end there.
Elizabeth Connell's Odabella, reeling between Italian patriotism and Attila's macho appeal, wields all the requisite vocal steel - unlovely, but hard-wrought and gripping - and yet melts beautifully for her last, compromised plea to Foresto.
The mood is uncompromisingly dour, from the unlovely Mersey accents to the unlovely attitudes of some convincingly nasty coppers, given to such bibulous pleasantries as 'You're twisted and you're a pairvairt and you'll make a blody good policeman.'
The mood is uncompromisingly dour, from the unlovely Mersey accents to the unlovely attitudes of some convincingly nasty coppers, given to such bibulous pleasantries as 'You're twisted and you're a pairvairt and you'll make a blody good policeman.'
The wirebird, an unlovely plover-like creature which scuttles rather than flies, is an essential sighting for tourists, since it is found nowhere else but St Helena. The supreme place of pilgrimage is the house where Napoleon was semi-incarcerated.