[ adj ] unpleasant to look at <adj.all> unsightly billboards
To get rid of those unsightly nets and save the 150-year-old triumphal arch, Michel Marot, the architect in charge of maintaining many of France's monuments, came up with a rehabilitation plan costing 34 million francs ($5.7 million).
Anyone allowing their lawn to reach an unsightly half-foot faced a city mowing crew _ and a city bill _ to keep their grass at regulation length.
Keen to clean up an unsightly rubbish tip? Britain's universities are eager to help.
Many Chinese, including members of the ageing leadership, will do almost anything to avoid going grey - to the extent of using unsightly dyes that produce an effect like boot black.
Optical technology can end awkward and unsightly wiring.
This destitute city of more than 1 million people has long been not only unsightly, but woefully unsanitary, with chest-high heaps of garbage on every corner, and sometimes even in the middle of the street.
The Pounds 50m Tees barrage at Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, goes into operation today, holding the river's level at high water mark to hide unsightly mud flats and create more than 12 miles of clean, tide-free water for leisure activities.
He's a spoiled brat." Coral Springs also has an animal psychologist, while an animal doctor in Vero Beach will cap the family mutt's unsightly teeth.
FK-506 has already reversed the effects of psoriasis, a skin disease that creates unsightly lesions, in all six patients who took it, Starzl said.
Even the lawyers don't know half the time who really has the rights." But Burke said reproductions are often made without obtaining licensing rights, with unsightly results.
Sheets of plywood were nailed over the offending scenes, then heavy drapes were hung to cover the unsightly plywood.