unhandsome

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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

An American teacher in middle age arrives at an apartment to meet a man who is older, overweight, unhandsome, a brute.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2020

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

I say even that it is unhandsome on the part of the prince to give me no peace.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk