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

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

There is an advantage in writing about the dead, for they cannot protest against the handsome things you say, and they cannot remonstrate against the unhandsome things.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks