| 1. | Too late, Tommy remembered his scheme of obliterating the unprepossessing Conrad. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | A letter, like a man, may have an unprepossessing exterior. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Then he screwed his features up someway sideways and glared out into the night with an unprepossessing cast of countenance. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | It chanced that he had that very morning encountered this unprepossessing stranger on the road between Bras d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |