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unˈhandsomeness
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†1. Unhandiness; inconvenience. Obs.
1550Thomas, Malageuolezza, vnhandsomnesse, or difficultee. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 83 b, Such Uines as are ioyned with Trees, for the vnhandsomenesse, can not be thus handled.
2. Inelegance, uncomeliness, plainness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxii, The sweetnes of her countenance did give such a grace to what she did, that it did make hansome the unhansomnes. 1606Dekker Sev. Sins i. (Arb.) 11 Couered with two or three threed-bare Carpets..to hide the vnhandsomnes of the Carpenters worke. 1658Whole Duty Man xiii. §7 First, for infirmities, be they either of body or mind, the deformity and unhandsomness of the one, or the weakness and folly of the other [etc.]. 1675G. R. tr. Le Grand's Man without Passion 168 You carry nothing of less use about you then that which you employ to hide your unhandsomeness. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 6 We reach our nadir of unhandsomeness in Ton Ton.
3. Unbecomingness; unfittingness.
1598Florio, Sgratia, a disgrace, a gracelesnes or vnhandsomnes. 1611Cotgr., Inconvenance, a misbecomming, vnhandsomenesse, vnfitnesse, vnseemelinesse. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year, Winter ii. 26 Then we shall see things as they are, the evill circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomenesse and the direct crimes. 1664N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. vi. 350 When they Consider that Unhandsomness which will never cease to attend their unjust Prosperities. 1774Adam Smith in Thomson Life Cullen (1832) I. 475 Bating the unhandsomeness of the practice,..in what manner does the public suffer by it? 1871Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. June 338 The unhandsomeness of breakfasting upon one's offspring. |