unaesthetic

[ uhn-es-thet-ik or, especially British, -ees- ]
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adjective
  1. offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.

Origin of unaesthetic

1
First recorded in 1825–35; un-1 + aesthetic
  • Also un·es·thet·ic, un·aes·thet·i·cal .

Other words from unaesthetic

  • un·aes·thet·i·cal·ly, adverb

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How to use unaesthetic in a sentence

  • The Taft home had something of the same unesthetic quality which marked Neshonoc.

  • Frivolous witlings put in: "Just imagine a pregnant woman in the tribune of the Reichstag; how utterly unesthetic!"

    Woman under socialism | August Bebel
  • She had sat opposite him at the unesthetic boarding-house dining-table for the past six weeks now.

  • Sometimes this covering has been sordid and mean, pedantic or unesthetic, sometimes most splendid.

  • And remember you need not initiate your husband in all your unesthetic ailments.

    Woman | William J. Robinson