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Considering the fact that it was my last, I flatter myself it was not unhandsomely done—though I may never need it.

From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth

But we are nearer, Gatty is in, Jenny, Oscar, the General slipped by me, and unhandsomely got in first.

From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Winton, Julia de

Notwithstanding this, we find them complaining, in 1679, that Dryden had behaved unhandsomely to them in carrying one of his plays to the other theatre, and so injuring their interests.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

The king employed Evelyn to write a history of the Dutch war, and “enjoined him to make it a little keen, for the Hollanders had very unhandsomely abused him in their pictures, books, and libels.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

The Earl of Ross did most unhandsomely and unhumanly apprehend his lady at Tain and delivered her to the English, anno 1305.

From History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Mackenzie, Alexander