unsightly

adj
/ʌnˈsaɪtli/

Etymology

From un- + sightly.

  1. inherited from sightlye
  2. formed as unsightly — “un- + sightly

Definitions

  1. Displeasing to the eye.

    • “She had grown used to the quick speech of these people, but she wished he would not lick his lips that way. It did not make him any harder to understand, but it was unsightly."
    • The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unsightly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA