homely

If you want to preserve the homely, mom-and-pop feeling of picking out your own merchandise and contemplating the value of a dollar before you enter your credit card info, Amazon is there for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Jenny Nimmo, the head of inclusion at East Midlands Academy Trust, which runs Prince William Academy, says the unit will have more "homely" classrooms and on-site mental health provision.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2025

The firms today have innocuous, homely names such as Dave.com and Brigit; their websites are adorned with stock photos of young people and families evidently basking in the relief of a short-term financial crisis averted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

Smith is miscast as Myrtle, for a start: Her onstage bearing exudes a homely approachability rather than high-strung poise or inscrutable aloofness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

But Lillian always remarked that the doctors had taken a badly burned, homely man, and with all the advances of modern medicine at their disposal, turned him into a grotesquerie.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

A number of the homelier mom-and-pop stores on the surrounding blocks had also been squeezed out.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2019

But when "The Simpsons" and "Seinfeld" arrived, it was the homelier sitcoms that held sway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2014

His campaign is seemingly mounting a belated bid to cultivate a homelier image.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2014

“Bad Romance” stands on the shoulders of these other, identically dressed, homelier singles, the star cheerleader, No. 1.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2014

Noise from outside the house was excluded completely, and even homelier indoor sounds were muffled, and sometimes even eliminated somehow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Indeed, as the play begins, Peg Smith, whose name alone lets you know she’s plain and real, stands cracking eggs at her kitchen island to make the homeliest food ever devised: zucchini bread.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

The homeliest dish on the menu — sepia-toned braised chicken — is among the best in part because of the swell of cream, morel mushrooms and vin jaune enveloping the tender chicken.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

Perhaps the homeliest, certainly the longest and toughest of Open venues, Carnoustie is a no-holds-barred layout intended to test the best.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 11, 2018

Whittier remains a minor writer, but his homeliest and most original work helped bring about the long-lived triumph of American vernacular verse.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

Even my mother said Howard was the homeliest baby she’d ever laid eyes on, but she did say that he would probably be just fine once he grew some hair.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson