comeliness
Americannoun
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the quality of being attractive or pleasing in appearance.
Her friend, a middle-aged woman, had retained much of her youthful comeliness.
In spite of their perceived lack of comeliness, ridgebacks are well known for their ability to hunt and guard.
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the quality of being seemly or proper in behavior.
The word in Arabic carries the meanings of virtue, beauty, goodness, comeliness, and “doing what is beautiful” all at once.
Etymology
Origin of comeliness
Example Sentences
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As an adult, he is played by Jacob Elordi, an excellent match for Ms. Robbie, both in comeliness and star power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
The goal was to enable Disney to avoid the honky-tonk character of development around Disneyland in Anaheim, and instead keep the Florida property in perfectly coiffed white-bread comeliness.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
Ms. Surya smartly foregrounds all that comeliness and every so often folds in a long shot that turns the characters into doll-like figures, a downsizing that gestures toward a nature vs. culture dynamic, maybe.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2018
Most dung fungi are *not* known for their, er, comeliness.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012
Being very agile, she danced admirably to a musical accompaniment, yet with beauty and comeliness, for the silent and gentle movement of her limbs kept time to the harmony of the chords.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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