unappetizingadjective
UK usually unappetising /ʌnˈæp.ə.taɪ.zɪŋ//ʌnˈæp.ə.taɪ.zɪŋ/Unappetizing food does not look or smell attractive and does not make you want to eat it:
If you overcook pasta before freezing it, its texture will be unappetizing once it's defrosted.
not attractive or pleasant:
The waterfront is distinctly unappetizing: a mixture of broken concrete, raw sewage, and piles of garbage tossed over garden walls.
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- Patients are reluctant to eat meals that are unappetizing.
- Many people find milk products unappetizing.
- People from this tribe were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game, something a Masai would never do.
- Although I found the food unappetizing, I warmed to the atmosphere of the place.
- High capital costs could make such projects unappetizing for investors to swallow without federal incentives.
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Not attractive to look at
- a blot on the landscape idiom
- back end
- be no oil painting idiom
- be not much to look at idiom
- blowsy
- florid
- ghoulish
- hideously
- horsey
- icky
- inelegant
- look a fright idiom
- look like the back end of a bus idiom
- minger
- putrid
- tasteless
- twee
- ugly
- ugly duckling
- unappealing
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Not of good quality