Example sentences for: unappealing

How can you use “unappealing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Also bletcherous Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing.)

  • Reviewers declare his play about a 40-year-old virgin and her mother "more immediate and vital than any new drama in seasons" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenters call McDonagh a "sadistic manipulative writer with an unappealing ruthlessness toward his characters" (Charles Spencer, the London Daily Telegraph ).

  • Such efforts would have required bases in the region, but all the options were unappealing.

  • Those in favor call the film "scorchingly funny" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) and Stiller's performance "rivetingly caustic" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Those against complain that the film is "a shallow tale told by an idiot" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and that Stiller's junkie character is too thoroughly unappealing for the audience to ever root for him.

  • This time, critics say, Wolfe has included a character the reader can like, rather than the usual cast of unappealing caricatures.


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