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

How many sharp and unhandsome transactions continually occur just because men are impatient, and wish to hurry on some consummation which their hearts are set on!

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by Blaikie, William Garden