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unprepossessing

[ UK /ʌnpɹɪpəzˈɛsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression

How To Use unprepossessing In A Sentence

  • Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society. A Car for the Everyday Man
  • Quite how Neville has managed to find such an unprepossessing place for a party is beyond me. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • As he opens one of his most ambitious buildings yet, a $135 million glass-fronted pavilion that encloses two historic theaters and adds an innovative third, he is also working on a civic library in an unprepossessing edge-city near Vancouver. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
  • Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
  • To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever. CHAPTER IX
  • It is a small and unprepossessing; the scribal hand is unbeautiful. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud. Raziel
  • 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.
  • It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
  • When I first went out to New York to do a recce for ‘Changing Lanes’, I stumbled upon a very unprepossessing restaurant.
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