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Recent Examples of unalluring
Los Angeles has never been more unalluring than in this bleak, racy and hard-to-put-down piece of neo-noir by first-time novelist Halley Sutton, who’s a kind of #MeToo Jim Thompson.
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Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unalluring
Adjective
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Anyone with an aversion to physical and mental torture will likely find Dangerous Animals a repulsive turnoff, but others with a taste for grisly violence should find something juicy to chomp on.—
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Now, Sully’s parents are played by human performers on large stilts, and his toddler sister is played by an actress in a repulsive, frightening mask.—
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How does this happen, no matter how revolting or nonsensical the trend can be?—
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These highly emotional sequences are less riveting and more revolting as they’re primarily used to add shock value, graphically depicting their triggering subject matter.—
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The election results suggest that most Germans find these views, or the impulse to base a political party on them, repugnant.—
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Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.—
Adjective
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Belief that your institution is exempt from the hard, functional and often boring parts of the job leads to a slow decline.—
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Organizations that foster a culture of self-compassion can empower their employees to better navigate stress, maintain their well-being, and - perhaps boring but no less important - adhere to safety protocols.—
Adjective
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Grant applications can be so tedious that some organizations hire professionals whose sole job is to write applications for grant funding.—
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To get the most out of it from the gate, enterprises should identify tedious knowledge work that AI agents can support, require agents to show their work and leverage AI verifiers to supervise for accuracy.—
Adjective
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These mosquito repellent bracelets will eliminate the need to cover your skin in smelly bug spray, and this sun hat has a back flap that’ll make sure your head and neck are completely covered throughout your trek.—
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And what of the repellent opening shot, which zooms out from the track marks on Amin’s arm to find 5-year-old Alpha using a marker to trace a constellation of sorts across his skin.—
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For Chicago taxpayers, the wait will be especially irksome because many of them are likely to see painful increases, reflecting this year’s triennial reassessment of city properties, the effects of which will be first seen in the second-installment bills.—
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This experiment could have gone wrong in any number of ways—by seeming contrived, by seeming disjointed, by imposing on its readers the irksome requirement of tracking which voice is saying what across two continents and the better part of a century.—
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One of the tiresome aspects of this new-world college football era is fans of opposing schools asserting that players bypassed their school only because of an NIL payout from another school.—
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The marketing around their rematch (which ended in a tiresome double disqualification) was a poor omen for Savage vs. DiBiase.—
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“Unalluring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unalluring. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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