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UK
/hˈændsʌmnəs/
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NOUN
- the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
How To Use handsomeness In A Sentence
- For then we shall see things as they are, the evil circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomeness and the direct crimes; for all things are laid up safely, and tho we draw a curtain of cobweb over them, and a few fig-leaves before our shame, yet God shall draw away the curtain, and forgetfulness shall be no more, because, with a taper in the hand of God, all the corners of our nastiness shall be discovered. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South
- Poetic Obituaries: A man of equability, handsomeness and charm Archive 2009-01-01
- There's the beauty of swallowing, the loveliness, the sharp breath from the bottle's neck and the handsomeness of that first taste, it rings out, shudders the walls.
- In his physical prime, which seemed to last a long time, the face had a fine-boned handsomeness that sometimes appeared attractively vulnerable, set in the frothing hair that could look like a nimbus with the light behind him.
- Franco is out in front, thanks to his unignorable turn in 127 Hours, his extreme handsomeness, and his willingness to do stuff like pose in full makeup for Terry Richardson, as he did for the cover of "transversal" style magazine Candy last year. The Guardian World News
- They are handsome cars, true, but by now the handsomeness feels rote. When Vroom Conquers Cuteness
- Standing nearly 6ft 4in and built like the proverbial brick outhouse, the Russian's brooding handsomeness makes him one of the few genuine new stars of the men's game.
- Some of the Tories had so wrought upon the governor, that, though he had first moved this matter, and had given us both directions and promises about it, yet he now (not without base unhandsomeness) deferred it. The Emancipation of Massachusetts
- There was a choice of risks: the risk of behaving with extraordinary incivility and unhandsomeness to a lady, and the risk of going on a fool's errand. The Dynamiter
- Those who complain of _unhandsomeness_ themselves laid on him the disagreeable necessity. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3