handsome
Usage
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Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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The candles retail between $42 to $50 for a pair, and recently, she developed a handsome pewter candle shaver that will be released in the winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lestat is handsome and wealthy, with extraordinary powers and musical talent so undeniable that they awaken the queen of vampires.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Two years from now the band hits the big screen again in Sam Mendes’s four-part biopic series, with the handsome James Norton playing Epstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Past stock-issuance waves have coincided with handsome returns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Yakov emerged, dressed in the same handsome evening suit and white shirt he had worn the night he died, a bronze watch chain draped across his pinstriped waistcoat.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
You can get a handsomer guy who has more star quality.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Now, however, he’s finally getting the cinematic recognition he deserves: Chris Pine, who is definitely handsomer than Robert ever was, will star in a new Netflix movie, Outlaw King, to be released Nov. 9.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
The 2008 revival of “South Pacific” on Broadway gave the baritone Paulo Szot, who reimagined the role of Emile de Becque in a younger and handsomer vein, an entree to a significant international opera career.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
There’s even a revisionist version of “Roots” that isn’t more than serviceable but is remarkably more handsome handsomer and better acted than the original.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
“I’ve got to get him before he goes or else my chances are ruined. And there’s no one handsomer in Egypt Town.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Alex Hassell, who plays Rupert, not knowingly undersold in the show as the "handsomest man in England", says that, to his surprise, his on-screen relationship has become a hit with Gen Z.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Best of all, he gifted us with the handsomest savior in the DC Universe, Eagly.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2022
Best bit: “You just never know how love will end / But never ever introduce her to your handsomest friend” from the song Father and Son.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
“Daniel Hudson Burnham was one of the handsomest men I ever saw,” said Paul Starrett, later to lead construction of the Empire State Building; he joined Burnham & Root in 1888 as an all-purpose helper.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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