unhandsome
Americanadjective
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lacking good looks; not attractive in physical appearance; plain or ugly.
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ungracious; discourteous; unseemly.
an unhandsome exchange of epithets.
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ungenerous; illiberal.
an unhandsome reward.
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Origin of unhandsome
Example Sentences
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Alec is self-conscious about his scarring, but if the show wanted to make Martin appear unhandsome, which he pushed for, it should have tried harder.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
Or if there was, it isn’t the story that Frank Loesser tells in his 1956 musical “The Most Happy Fella,” about the romance between the unhandsome middle-aged Tony and the waitress Rosabella.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
He was not unhandsome; his face was chiselled and tanned to a dusky perfection.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
In those days Stravinsky had an unhandsome but chiseled, fiercely self-contained face.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2010
It were unhandsome, however, to take leave of the learned labours of Prebendary Scrivener and Archdeacon Palmer, without a few words of sympathy and admiration.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
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