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

This being the class of letters of which it had been and continued to be predicted that with the extension of cross-posts the number must diminish, the postmasters-general regarded the advance as not unhandsome.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert