a. (UN-1 7.) Also Comb.
[1775. Ash.]
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, V. 29. Compelled, by Its deformity, to screen … Its unattractive lineaments.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, IV. 56. It was evident … that the proposed measure was only … a compromise of the most unattractive kind.
1897. Outing (U.S.), XXX. 242/1. A very unattractive-looking dog that put us into precipitate flight.
Hence Unattractively adv., -ness.
1836. Jas. Grant, Random Recoll. Ho. Lords, xvi. 379. The unattractiveness of his manner.
1862. [Eliz. Johnston], Gifts & Graces, xvi. 159. The … condition of lady-like unattractiveness so indispensable in a governess.
1863. A. Gilchrist, Life Blake (1880), I. 426. They are very small and very unattractively engraved.
