According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones.
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Unattractive
Synonyms for "unattractive" (62 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (31)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriessimilar
13 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- ժուժկալ adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
- տգեղ adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- грозен adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- непривлекателен adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
Dutch
1 entries- onaantrekkelijk adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Finnish
1 entries- epämiellyttävä adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
German
2 entries- unschön adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- üsselig adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
Icelandic
1 entries- óaðlaðandi adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Irish
4 entries- gránna adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- míghnaíúil adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- míofar adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- míthaitneamhach adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
Italian
1 entries- sconveniente adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
Latin
1 entries- invenustus adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Latvian
1 entries- neglīts adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Macedonian
1 entries- одбивен adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Manx
1 entries- neuchleaynagh adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- eizhich adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Polish
2 entries- nieatrakcyjny adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- nieatrakcyjny adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
Russian
4 entries- невы́годный adj (lacking the power to attract interest)
- неинтере́сный adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- непригля́дный adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- стрёмный adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- rúžan adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- ру́жан adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Spanish
2 entries- inatractivo adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- inatrayente adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Swedish
2 entries- ful adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- oattraktiv adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Thai
2 entries- ขี้เหร่ adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
- หน้าเน่า adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Ukrainian
1 entries- негарний adj (not handsome or beautiful or appealing)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
In the carriage sat a gentleman, not attractive, but also not unattractive, not too fat nor too thin; one could not call him old, but he also was not too young.
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Mary is unattractive.
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Even before the plastic surgery, Mary wasn't unattractive.
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