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homeliness

[ UK /hˈə‍ʊmlinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful
    fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness
  2. having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance

How To Use homeliness In A Sentence

  • Yet it lacked the usual dust in the air, the homeliness and lived-in appearance his old lab had.
  • Scoff not its homeliness, nor that of its inmates -- ye might long have abidden at the court of England, ere we had sought your favour, or cumbered you with our society. The Monastery
  • I was surprised at the tidiness of his flat, the homeliness of it.
  • Like most great beauties, she narrowly missed homeliness.
  • Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. 
  • In the palace there were half a dozen officers 'quarters, and these had been apportioned to the married; consequently the palace had that air of homeliness which is supposed to be lacking in the quarters of single men. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
  • Perugino was evidently a devout man; and the Virgin, therefore, revealed herself to him in loftier and sweeter faces of celestial womanhood, and yet with a kind of homeliness in their human mould, than even the genius of Raphael could imagine. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni
  • It doesn't help that her homeliness is a sharp contrast to the declaration of all the men on screen that she's some sort of immortal beauty. DigitallyOBSESSED.com DVD News and Reviews
  • Just because men didn't fill their diaries with their notion of "homeliness" doesn't mean they weren't interested in it, nor does it deter Vickery from trying to find out the details. NYT > Home Page
  • However, there was little sense of homeliness or cosiness.
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