Sentence examples for is less appetizing from inspiring English sources

A German study showed that stressed individuals automated their actions to receive a reward, even after the reward was devalued (like when a plate of food is less appetizing after you've just finished dinner).

A fruit float — pieces of banana and citrus suspended in ginger ale, topped, jarringly, with a large scoop of lime sherbet — is less appetizing than it is mesmerizing.

Using a store-bought dog treat is less appetizing, but still productive.

The resulting piece looks like a haute couture Speedmaster and should cost around $15,000, an acceptable sum for a manufacture watch with Droz's provenance given that other Droz watches can run into the $100,000s, a price that might be less appetizing to the illiquid entrepreneur.

— Jeff Gordinier The New York Times: Tea, sticky toffee pudding, steak-and-Guinness pie: If the menus for "Downton Abbey" viewing parties are less appetizing than the show, just lie back and think of England.

Few sights are less appetizing than watching Queen Kong waddling about in a half yard of terminally overstressed fabric.

— Jeff Gordinier The Wall Street Journal: Men are moving into the kitchen at home, writes Daniel Duane, hinting that part of the fun (for him, anyway) is escaping less appetizing chores.

Their answers were less than appetizing.

Fried calamari, with two dips, had desiccated rubber band consistency and flavor, while an order of hot Gorgonzola garlic bread consisted of two generous slabs of Italian bread dripping with a crude gooey blue cheese coating that was less than appetizing.

And, even if a hot meal is served, often the tournedos of beef or the steamed salmon are less than appetizing.

Greasy Navy fare was less than appetizing, but we wolfed it down and begged for more.