unprepossessing
أونبريبوسيسينج
definition
adjective
despite his unprepossessing appearance he had an animal magnetism
not particularly attractive or appealing to the eye.
example
The beauty of Durer's sleeping dog lies not in its 'unprepossessing' appearance but in its usefulness as a hunter.
Even the most flattering chronicles noted the marshal's 'unprepossessing' appearance: of medium height, with at best regular features and heavy eyebrows that allegedly joined over the nose.
This 'unprepossessing' , humble and exceptionally talented tenor (lacking the prima donna attitude of far too many of his professional colleagues) has been hailed as the greatest living tenor in the world today.
It was remarkably 'unprepossessing' - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.
An 'unprepossessing' script in somebody's bottom drawer, worked on creatively by a dedicated team of top experts, becomes a brilliant, world-class tax deduction, often without ever even getting a release!
But although he lives with his children in an 'unprepossessing' suburban home in this medium-size college town, Mr. Mapfumo's heart resides in his homeland.
Then one brief TV interview with an 'unprepossessing' kid holding a skateboard explains the view from the other side: he says the boy was skateboarding on her street, she was yelling at him, then he got angry and pushed her.
He was 'unprepossessing' in appearance, and suffered from a club foot.
The Worksop club where he learned the game is 'unprepossessing' and, for all his achievements in world golf, his relationship with the down-to-earth members hasn't changed since he was sweeping up trophies as a junior at the club.
Despite their 'unprepossessing' looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
He and his wife are fragile, physically 'unprepossessing' and teary-eyed from the outset.
Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his 'unprepossessing' physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
Less than half a block east from MusiquePlus, though, is a little gem of a place called Merveille Istanbul, a small, 'unprepossessing' lunch spot serving tasty and wholesome Turkish eats for very reasonable prices.
As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit, and at the same time acutely self-conscious about what he felt to be his 'unprepossessing' appearance; in consequence, he played no part in games and tended to be a natural prey to bullies.
The first appearance by a man in Barker's work is 'unprepossessing' , to say the least.
His wife is long gone, and he has lapsed into the 'unprepossessing' lifestyle of the set-in-his-ways mid-lifer: washing up when he feels like it, clothes where he drops them, that sort of thing.
His conquests have surprised many, largely because of his 'unprepossessing' appearance.
The man is long-haired and 'unprepossessing' , with tin spectacles and this curious nasal Liverpudlian delivery: the appearance is either grotesque or quaint and the overall impression is one of great foolishness.
I think, looking at her photographs, you would have to say deeply 'unprepossessing' woman, and he fell utterly and completely in love with her that evening, for ever, and died, really, in her arms, forty years later.
As a world-weary New Yorker, my son Sam was less than awed by Moscow - until I told him that the 'unprepossessing' marble building on Red Square housed a real-life mummy.
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