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unhandsome

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un·hand·some  (n-hnsm)
adj.
1. Not attractive or beautiful; homely.
2. Not courteous or in good taste; ungracious.

un·handsome·ly adv.
un·handsome·ness n.


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I was at first a little shocked at returning to the same house whence we had departed in so unhandsome a manner; but when the drawer, with very civil address, told us, `he believed we had forgot to pay our reckoning,' I became perfectly easy, and very readily gave him a guinea, bid him pay himself, and acquiesced in the unjust charge which had been laid on my memory.
Fanny could have said a great deal, but it was safer to say nothing, and leave untouched all Miss Crawford's resources-- her accomplishments, her spirits, her importance, her friends, lest it should betray her into any observations seemingly unhandsome.
Worn and unhandsome as he had become, it was plain that she did not discern the least fault in his appearance.
 
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