unhandsome
Example Sentences
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“Seeing him for the first time, last year, she had stared with recognition at his mouth, at its unhandsome, simian quality, his lips slightly too wide for his narrow boy’s face,” Choi writes.
From New York Times
Who could be more ready for a lonely, unhandsome poet, a man who actually likes interpretive dance, a man who’d recite Rilke to her after sex?
From New York Times
Slim and compact and not unhandsome in his dark suit, he was small—by the time Cecilia was thirteen, both his women overtopped him—with a neatly trimmed beard and brown eyes that were unexpectedly limpid and expressive, suggesting that he held back strong feeling.
From The New Yorker
He was not unhandsome; his face was chiselled and tanned to a dusky perfection.
From The New Yorker
It is “an ordinary face, I guess you could say, relatively dark-featured, with a close-trimmed beard and thick eyebrows, the gift of my Portuguese great-grandparents. An unremarkable, unhandsome, inoffensive face. A white face. I should add that now.”
From Slate
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