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  • adjective superlative form of unhandsome: most unhandsome.

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Examples

  • When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • But deep below our freckles and hay-coloured hair the unhandsomest of us dream of a prince or a princess, not vicarious, but coming to us alone.

    The Four Million O. Henry 1886

  • When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872

  • When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • Since then, sir, he has ceased to be of use, -- ceased, too, in the unhandsomest manner.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Since then, sir, he has ceased to be of use, -- ceased, too, in the unhandsomest manner.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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