adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
very
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Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible, humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.
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The alternative is raising taxes, but that is also a very unattractive option.
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The money was alluring but the people with the money were very unattractive .
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In their experience they may have only one very unattractive alternative: careers that leave no time for family.
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The very unattractive grey flannel trousers, who could guess at the legs they hid?
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The massive gravity wells of Jupiter and Saturn make them very unattractive sources of materials.
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Nevertheless there is something very unattractive about this particular suggestion.
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An ugly area of fat which is very uneven and very unattractive .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was physically unattractive .
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Reducing city services and raising taxes are both unattractive alternatives.
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The town is surrounded by large, unattractive housing estates that nobody wants to live in.
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Wearing an unattractive blouse and old-fashioned skirt, Lisa looked older than she was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And she, seeing him, felt that he - though plump and unattractive - was an oasis for her.
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But the comparison with the position of the citizen, on the law as it stands at present, is most unattractive .
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Clios are unattractive to car thieves as a result.
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Despite this seemingly unattractive situation, there was a large influx of mining companies prospecting in the country in the late sixties.
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In their experience they may have only one very unattractive alternative: careers that leave no time for family.
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It is boxy still, but rounded boxy and not unattractive .
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They multiply rapidly if ignored, however, and form an unattractive brown film wherever they congregate.
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We might be inclined to reject the arrangement because it seems unattractive and not what we want.