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Definition

unprepossessing /ʌnpri:pǝ'zesÇŋ / adj မခံ့ေသာ။ မထည္ဝါေသာ။ a man of unprepossessing appearance ❍ an unprepossessing little office.

Examples

1. ‘He and his wife are fragile
2. physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.’
3. ‘Despite their unprepossessing looks
4. bull terriers have many attractive virtues.’
5. ‘The Worksop club where he learned the game is unprepossessing and
6. for all his achievements in world golf
7. his relationship with the down-to-earth members hasn't changed since he was sweeping up trophies as a junior at the club.’
8. ‘His conquests have surprised many
9. largely because of his unprepossessing appearance.’
10. ‘I think
11. looking at her photographs
12. you would have to say deeply unprepossessing woman
13. and he fell utterly and completely in love with her that evening
14. for ever
15. and died
16. really
17. in her arms
18. forty years later.’
19. ‘Even the most flattering chronicles noted the marshal's unprepossessing appearance: of medium height
20. with at best regular features and heavy eyebrows that allegedly joined over the nose.’
21. ‘His wife is long gone
22. and he has lapsed into the unprepossessing lifestyle of the set-in-his-ways mid-lifer: washing up when he feels like it
23. clothes where he drops them
24. that sort of thing.’
25. ‘He was unprepossessing in appearance
26. and suffered from a club foot.’
27. ‘The first appearance by a man in Barker's work is unprepossessing
28. to say the least.’
29. ‘The man is long-haired and unprepossessing
30. with tin spectacles and this curious nasal Liverpudlian delivery: the appearance is either grotesque or quaint and the overall impression is one of great foolishness.’
31. ‘But although he lives with his children in an unprepossessing suburban home in this medium-size college town
32. Mr. Mapfumo's heart resides in his homeland.’
33. ‘As a world-weary New Yorker
34. my son Sam was less than awed by Moscow - until I told him that the unprepossessing marble building on Red Square housed a real-life mummy.’
35. ‘This unprepossessing
36. humble and exceptionally talented tenor (lacking the prima donna attitude of far too many of his professional colleagues) has been hailed as the greatest living tenor in the world today.’
37. ‘An unprepossessing script in somebody's bottom drawer
38. worked on creatively by a dedicated team of top experts
39. becomes a brilliant
40. world-class tax deduction
41. often without ever even getting a release!’
42. ‘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
43. she was yelling at him
44. then he got angry and pushed her.’
45. ‘Nor did he
46. like Franklin
47. turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage
48. creating a homespun
49. backwoods
50. authentically ‘American’ persona.’
51. ‘The beauty of Durer's sleeping dog lies not in its unprepossessing appearance but in its usefulness as a hunter.’
52. ‘It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob
53. six or eight inches high
54. with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.’
55. ‘As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit
56. and at the same time acutely self-conscious about what he felt to be his unprepossessing appearance; in consequence
57. he played no part in games and tended to be a natural prey to bullies.’
58. ‘Less than half a block east from MusiquePlus
59. though