unsexyadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsɛksi/, U.S. /ˌənˈsɛksi/ Originally U.S.
Not sexy (in various senses); esp. not sexually attractive, unalluring.
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1931 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 13 June 12/1 It will be the third comedy of the season and is another clean, unsexy one.
1952 Chester (Pa.) Times 18 June 16/2 A nude model has to have a sexy body but an unsexy face.
1960 Timberman Oct. 78/2 The unsexy name of the bait is 1, 2-hexadecanediol.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 193 I would get..a kind of hollow pressure at the back of my throat (..not unsexy) which nevertheless I had to lose.
2016 Manuwatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 15 June 8 They [sc. pyjamas] were made of decidedly unsexy fleecy flannelette and the pants were held up with drawstrings.
Derivatives
unˈsexily adv.
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1972 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 5 July Maybe having six brothers I just relate to my professors unsexily.
1988 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 7 July 4/2 Mulroney's long chewed-over new Official Languages Act, unsexily known as bill C-72.
2009 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 13 Jan. l6 That six-week roll of extra fat and skin that so unsexily adorns our midriffs.
unˈsexiness n.
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1962 Film Q. Summer 38/1 The fresh family scenes of John Frankenheimer's All Fall Down almost compensated for the trite unsexiness of the sex episodes.
1991 Times (Nexis) 15 May The ‘unsexiness’ of wheelchairs on a stage.
2003 Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) (Nexis) 26 Apr. 13 Even the velvet-trimmed underwear..had an interesting unsexiness about them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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