Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not attractive or beautiful; homely.
- adj. Not courteous or in good taste; ungracious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not well adapted for being handled or used; inconvenient; awkward; untoward; unmanageable; unhandy.
- Not handsome; not good-looking; not well-formed; not beautiful.
- Not generous or decorous; not liberal; unfair; disingenuous; mean; unbecoming.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not handsome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely.
- adj. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous.
- adj. obsolete Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient.
Etymologies
- un- + handsome (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I am conscious that my conduct may appear to you extremely unhandsome and, I feel somthing like uneasiness untill I explain.”
“Whin the talk goes round iv a maid an 'a man, the one pretty an' the other not unhandsome, both young an 'neither married, does it' token aught but the one thing?”
“I leave it to you: thirty years of age, not entirely unhandsome, an intellectual and artistic place in the world, and an income most dazzling -- why shouldn't women pursue me?”
“What I saw was tall, dark-haired, and not unhandsome, but unfortunately, it was not my indebted demigod, Shezmou.”
“I grabbed my cell phone and twisted my head over my shoulder to film the unhandsome couple and wait for a glimpse of their obvious lunch date.”
“What the devil should possess her to say such an unhandsome thing of him?”
“Pons called out; the door opened, and a young man not quite six feet in height, a dark blonde, and by no means unhandsome, walked into the room.”
“He wasn't gigantic in the full daylight, but he was big enough, his face broad and heavy-jawed but not unhandsome, the eyes I hadn't been able to make out at our first meeting a brownish green.”
“I knew that he was a baseball player, and not unhandsome, and I wanted to punch him in the face.”
“His face was unmarked and not unhandsome, but was devoid of expression.”
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