单词 | not unpretty |
释义 | > as lemmasnot unpretty Not pretty; unglamorous. Frequently in not unpretty. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective] unfairc888 unhonestc1384 unlovesomec1390 uncomelya1400 unfreelya1400 unlovelyc1400 unbeautiful1495 beautiless1531 unpretty1562 unhandsomea1586 loveless1601 featureless1609 invenust1623 unhighted?1630 unbeauteousa1660 plain1675 wanliesum1818 unbonny1830 ordinary1847 plainish1856 unsonsy1894 1562 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Poyntes Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. 27 Some knacke not vnprettie, of huswifrie nettie, how huswives should iettie from morning to night. 1682 E. Meredith Some Remarques upon Julian the Apostate 31 A trick he has..for the bringing in Popery in a peaceable way..: that I must confess would be something new, and not unpretty. 1727 E. Boyd Variety: a Poem ii. 58 How rude looks Study, oh! how much unpretty. 1782 F. Burney Let. 15 Oct. in Diary & Lett. (1842) II. 155 His English is blundering, but not unpretty. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 40 Too refined for the youths of her own station, and too unpretty to attract those above her. 1864 S. B. Warner Old Helmet II. xviii. 305 It was long and low, with a high picturesque thatched roof, and the walls fancifully wrought in a pattern, making a not unpretty appearance. 1919 M. H. Foote Ground-swell iv. 73 Her strange little face, that no portrait has preserved, so unregular, unpretty, but so fascinating. 1980 J. Lees-Milne Diary 17 Aug. in Deep Romantic Chasm (2003) 106 Billa took us to see extraordinary garden... Not unpretty but too many grottos, follies, and busts. 2006 Independent on Sunday 19 Nov. 28 A nondescript side street of an unpretty north-west London suburb. < as lemmas |
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