[ US /ˈkəmɫi/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌmli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. very pleasing to the eye
    there's a bonny bay beyond
    young fair maidens
    a comely face
    my bonny lass
  2. according with custom or propriety
    comely behavior
    it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money
    seemly behavior
    her becoming modesty
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How To Use comely In A Sentence

  • I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • At the beginning of the film, her Toula is genuinely uncomely.
  • “Is she a pretty girl?” said the Duke; “her sister does not get beyond a good comely sonsy lass.” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • Hypocrisy and a spirit of error will so besmut God's ordinances, that he shall take no pleasure in them: but sincerity, and honesty in duties, will make even those circumstances that in themselves are indifferent, at least comely in the sight of men. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
  • I just loved the line ‘not uncomely face’, and as for the denial - well, let me say that Kei is not immune to that, either.
  • Well, Anselmo was at least a conscientious scholar in his time, and Rafael, if tradition be worth aught, was a comely youth.
  • It is a comely thing even for a saint to be well-clothed about with humility, and the deepest valley is safer and seemlier walking for a lame man than the mountain-top; and so on, till Rutherford admitted that Robert Gordon's warnings were neither impertinent nor untimeous. Samuel Rutherford
  • You might remember Amanda, the comely cutpurse who periodically dropped by to complicate Duncan MacLeod's life.
  • I managed to resist the allure of comely females for the rest of the day; but unfortunately, at night time, I relapsed again.
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