Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unhandsome manner, in any sense.

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  • adverb In an unhandsome manner.

Etymologies

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unhandsome +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I have used you very unhandsomely in not answering your repeated enquiries but if you could see me, and know what I have suffer'd, and am suffering as to health, you would say peace.

    Letter 360 2009

  • Her looks of grateful acknowledgment, her words of affectionate courtesy, had been repelled with something which approached to disdain; and if the Master of Ravenswood had sustained wrongs at the hand of Sir William Ashton, his conscience told him they had been unhandsomely resented towards his daughter.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • There's time enough to look about you; only as Mr. Mandlebert has behaved so unhandsomely, I hope none of the family will give him their countenance.

    Camilla 2008

  • But Mary Anne Perkinsop although I behaved handsomely to her and she behaved unhandsomely to me was worth her weight in gold as overawing lodgers without driving them away, for lodgers would be far more sparing of their bells with Mary Anne than I ever knew them to be with Maid or

    Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

  • But Mary Anne Perkinsop although I behaved handsomely to her and she behaved unhandsomely to me was worth her weight in gold as overawing lodgers without driving them away, for lodgers would be far more sparing of their bells with Mary Anne than I ever knew them to be with Maid or

    Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings 2007

  • But if my Lord Petre is to marry another lady, I hope that people will not think Miss Fermor has been treated unhandsomely.

    The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

  • And do not think so unhandsomely of your mother, as to fear that she would make partial constructions against me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But, were he in good health, he would not, as I understand, visit at Harlowe-place, having some time since been unhandsomely treated by your brother, on his offering to mediate for you with your family.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • If there are any letters, in which he has treated my sister unhandsomely, you must not let me see them.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • A man may have a garment that may fit very ill, very unhandsomely about him.

    Sacramental Discourses 1616-1683 1968

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