c1230 Hali Meid. 25 As tah ha nefden wit in ham ne tweire schead as mon haueð, ba of god & of uuel, of cumelich & of uncumelich [v.r. vnkumelich].

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. x. 180 Hit is an vn-Comely Couple..To ȝeuen a ȝong wenche to an old feble Mon.

a1400 Sir Degrev. 1638 The body syttys opon the hors, Hyt was uncomely to the cors.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 35 He..began to persuade the rest..to forsake that rudnes & uncomly lyfe.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vii. 307 Whereunto for an other inticement to vncleannesse, wee may referre all vndecent and vncomelie pictures.

1622 in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 459 All such reasons are uncomely and unchristian to be objected.

a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) 39 If any man speaks any thing uncomely there, the Chancellor..interrupts him.

a1683 J. Owen Two Disc. Holy Spirit (1693) ii. iv. 169 Uncomely Artifices of intreiguing Secular Courts.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. App. x To avoid broad and uncomely speech.

a1400 Octavian 884 Clement broght forthe schylde and spere, That were uncomely for to were, Alle sutty, blakk, and unclene.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xi. sig. fij^v We se, that therof..the childrens personages do waxe vncomely, & lasse growe in stature.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 36/1 In his latter dayes wyth ouer liberall dyet, sommewhat corpulente and boorelye, and nathelesse not vncomelye.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iv. 35 To make horses amble without either marring their mouthes, vnsetling their heads or breeding any other vncomely disorders.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. xii. 23 Our vncomely parts haue more abundant comlinesse. View more context for this quotation

1710 R. Steele Spectator No. 17. ⁋1 Since our Persons are not of our own Making, when they are such as appear Defective or Uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable Fortitude to dare to be Ugly.

1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed i. i Your aspect is Dusky, but not uncomely.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. i. 8 Mrs. Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face.

1849 J. G. Whittier Leaves from Margaret Smith's Jrnl. (1866) Charity..maketh the weak strong and the uncomely beautiful.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 891 Worme þou sal be vncumly diȝt, mare þan any oþer wiȝt.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Douce) 106 Bare was þe body, and..Al bi-clagged in clay, vncomly cladde.

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Aiii A man with hoare heeres, vncomely doth inclyne To mysframed fables, or iesture femynyne.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 300^v Will noman chastice this feloe here uncomely demeanyng hymself?

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. E1 The great Ladie..would needs haue him carie her little Dogge, which he doing officiously, and yet vncomely, the Page scoffed. View more context for this quotation

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rr^v/1 'Tis most uncomely spoken.