Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of beauty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of beauty.
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- adjective Lacking
beauty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless, and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history.
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This was an underworld where squalor and vice went hand in hand through the beautiless streets, a melting-pot of the world's outcasts; this was the shadowland which last night had swallowed up
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This was an underworld where squalor and vice went hand in hand through the beautiless streets, a melting-pot of the world's outcasts; this was the shadowland, which last night had swallowed up Nayland
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Men, under a too strictly inter-masculine environment, have evolved the mainly useful but beautiless costume common to-day; and women --?
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A land that wears a laurel crown may be fair to see; but twine a few sad cypress leaves around the brow of any land, and be that land barren, beautiless and bleak, it becomes lovely in its consecrated coronet of sorrow, and it wins the sympathy of the heart and of history.
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But O how melancholy a forlorn, beautiless world will this be at this day!
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"'Judson,' says Fergus, 'you know you are as beautiless as a rhinoceros.
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