How To Use Prepossess In A Sentence

A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.
We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. Arabian nights. English
To remove a conviction so generally adopted, Quentin easily saw was impossible — nay, that any attempt to undeceive men so obstinately prepossessed in their belief, would be attended with personal risk, which, in this case, he saw little use of incurring. Quentin Durward
If any thing has fallen under your observation, either on the one side or the other, I intreat you to lay it totally aside; to come to the consideration of this subject with cool, dispassionate, unprejudiced, unprepossessed minds, to attend to the evidence that will be laid before you, and to that evidence alone -- by that evidence let the Defendants stand or fall. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8

Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society. A Car for the Everyday Man
Quite how Neville has managed to find such an unprepossessing place for a party is beyond me. LOVE YOU MADLY
I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, — and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. — A sentimental journey through France and Italy
I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, - and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
As he opens one of his most ambitious buildings yet, a $135 million glass-fronted pavilion that encloses two historic theaters and adds an innovative third, he is also working on a civic library in an unprepossessing edge-city near Vancouver. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever. CHAPTER IX
It is a small and unprepossessing; the scribal hand is unbeautiful. The Times Literary Supplement
He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud. Raziel
The blue eyes into which Betty turned to look were honest, too, and the shock of tow-colored hair and the half-embarrassed grin that displayed a set of uneven, white teeth instantly prepossessed the girl in favor of the speaker.
Growing up physically small in the shadow of prepossessing Kim Il - sung can hardly have been easy.
It was extremely unusual to have callers shown in in this unceremonious fashion, even if she had been rather unprepossessed by these particular callers. The Beloved Woman
But even in this democracy, absolute power, if they chose to exercise it, would rest with the numerical majority; and these would be composed exclusively of a single class, alike in biasses, prepossessions, and general modes of thinking, and a class, to say no more, not the most highly cultivated. Representative Government
She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
Then one brief TV interview with an unprepossessing kid holding a skateboard explains the view from the other side: he says the boy was skateboarding on her street, she was yelling at him, then he got angry and pushed her.
A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.
When we take up an ancient text, seeking to understand it and expecting it to speak to us, deep calling to our deep, we do so with certain presuppositions, inexplicit and unconscious, never with an empty, unprepossessed mind. Circle of understanding
It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
When I first went out to New York to do a recce for ‘Changing Lanes’, I stumbled upon a very unprepossessing restaurant.
She was described as prepossessing, “open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.” Elizabeth Fry
The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop. Box
Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
Shakespeare to glorify the name of Cranmer or to deify the names of the queen then dead and the king yet living, it is but natural that he should be induced by an unconscious bias or prepossession of the will to depreciate the worth of the verse sent on work fitter for ushers and embalmers and the general valetry or varletry of Church and State. A Study of Shakespeare
I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
The Koreans, knowing perhaps that failure would mean summary execution, executed their own swarming defensive strategy and foiled, consternated and vexed the Brazilians so badly that Brazil's "beautiful game" became, right before our astonished eyes, the "not so prepossessing game. Greatest World Cup goals
Despite their unprepossessing looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
When I left the Superintendent he was deciding what to do with these unprepossessing specimens of the soldiery. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Though unprepossessing to look at, he is highly intelligent.
This unprepossessing mare must defy her own humble origins and much more besides. Times, Sunday Times
It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.
The king's prepossession in my favor is very valuable.
Flightless, fangless, clawless, slow, and weak, he isn't physically prepossessing.
She was described as prepossessing, "open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning. Elizabeth Fry
The girl and baby disappeared as soon as I saw my father; which was not surprising, for he could not be called a prepossessing half-breed. Lazarre
We trundled off, hiked up a steep incline of jagged coral, past poisonous trees and cat-sized frogs, and ended up at an unprepossessing wooden pontoon at the edge of a vast lake.
Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
The world taken _en masse_ is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a puritan, a prig. The Green Carnation
We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen’d such squeamishness in Attic salt. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He looked like a cop, was talking to another cop, and Adam hoped he was the one, because he didn't look very prepossessing. DOLL'S EYES
While not physically prepossessing and perhaps less obviously glamorous than her contemporaries, she is aging beautifully, and it is a pleasure to see her work.
As I had not been so well known as a moralist, and had not the prepossessing advantage of a bald, benevolent head, nothing was done for me, and I was turned once more on the wide world, to moralize on the vicissitudes of fortune. Paul Clifford — Complete
I said, trying to score a point: ‘A pair of broken glass is hardly a prepossessing sight, they must have put it away.’
But the prepossessions of Flora were unalienably engaged in favour of the exiled Stuarts; and they were not, perhaps, the less likely to glow from being necessarily suppressed. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel. The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv
He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum
A rather colourless pair of unprepossessing portraits. Times, Sunday Times
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
His conquests have surprised many, largely because of his unprepossessing appearance.
Not very prepossessing to look at but this hard, round hairy ball is so versatile you will never look at it the same way again after reading this column.
It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
Even the most flattering chronicles noted the marshal's unprepossessing appearance: of medium height, with at best regular features and heavy eyebrows that allegedly joined over the nose.
Marbois 'representations, and Luzerne's prepossessions against our trade with their colonies, occasioned him, as minister of that department, not only to reverse the ordinance, but to recall Chillon and send out Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it. The Confidence-Man
Utterly naïve and anachronistic it may be, but it's no less prepossessing and pretty for that.
He is physically prepossessing, with a ‘massive build’ simmering with ‘tremendous, dormant strength’.
He took a quiet sip, his wide, prepossessing brown eyes scanning Carnon's swiftly and sharply.
There is a seductive quality here, because the joy of being loved, cared for, adulated, enjoyed as an attractive being, sexually and spiritually, is prepossessing for people the world over. Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love
Like many of the sites, this bommie was rather unprepossessing above water, but below it was a different matter entirely.
As a boy he was physically weak and maladroit, and at the same time acutely self-conscious about what he felt to be his unprepossessing appearance; in consequence, he played no part in games and tended to be a natural prey to bullies.
The impressive group of works which forms the core of the exhibition is accompanied by others less prepossessing and of sometimes doubtful relevance.
His face was hardly to be termed prepossessing, but it certainly did not denote the ruthless ferocity which the nature of the task he had undertaken would require, and which he exercised in its accomplishment. La Vend�e
The impressive group of works which forms the core of the exhibition is accompanied by others less prepossessing and of sometimes doubtful relevance.
She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
The first appearance by a man in Barker's work is unprepossessing, to say the least.
She was prepossessed with the notion of her own superiority.
If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations.
Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
In that portrait, now in the Louvre, Chardin looks more conventionally prepossessing: debonair, benign and smiling all over his face.
The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful.
“But so prepossessed were they in favor of regularity and discipline, and in such contempt were these people held, that the admonition was suggested in vain.” George Washington’s First War
Her boast was the reason she eventually wed the unprepossessing, even ugly, deer-legged, voyageur who was her much despised husband. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The idea of his failure prepossesses him
He saw that life itself infinitely outvalued anything that could be feigned about it, but its richness seemed to corrupt him, and he had not the clear, ethical conscience which forced George Eliot to be realistic when probably her artistic prepossessions were romantic. Literature and Life (Complete)
Adams had never been a physically prepossessing man, even in his prime.
I think, looking at her photographs, you would have to say deeply unprepossessing woman, and he fell utterly and completely in love with her that evening, for ever, and died, really, in her arms, forty years later.
It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
His wife is long gone, and he has lapsed into the unprepossessing lifestyle of the set-in-his-ways mid-lifer: washing up when he feels like it, clothes where he drops them, that sort of thing.
Most radically, we have extended protection to every endangered species, even the lowliest and most unprepossessing-the Furbish lousewort, the snail darter, the desert pupfish, the spotted owl.
The brutally healthy boy contemns the female sex because he sees it incapable of his own athletic sports, but Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns, -- their paltry prepossessions, their vulgar sequaciousness, their invincible ignorance, their absorption in a petty self. Born in Exile
Our curate is a young gentleman of such prepossessing appearance, and fascinating manners, that within one month after his first appearance in the parish, half the young – lady inhabitants were melancholy with religion, and the other half, desponding with love. Sketches by Boz
I HAD never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterreand that was the unaccountable sport of nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. 37. The Dwarf. Paris
His extreme youth, too, prepossessed the councillors in his favour, the rather that no one could easily believe that the sagacious Louis would have chosen so very young a person to become the confidant of political intrigues; and thus the King enjoyed, in this, as in other cases, considerable advantage from his singular choice of agents, both as to age and rank, where such election seemed least likely to be made. Quentin Durward
He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
His guide suddenly stopped before a delapidated café; outwardly, at least, it was unprepossessing in the extreme. THE LONELY SEA
How should I outroot prepossessions so inveterate, -- the fruits of his earliest education, fostered and matured by the observation and experience of his whole life? Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
She thought their faces showed an unpleasing mixture of Dutch and 'Kalmuck,' or Mongol, and 'moreover they look heavy, dull and frightened and are not at all prepossessing. Royal Comedy
An unprepossessing script in somebody's bottom drawer, worked on creatively by a dedicated team of top experts, becomes a brilliant, world-class tax deduction, often without ever even getting a release!
Maybe you're telling the truth, at that," she announced suddenly, eyes coldly unprepossessed. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
A prepossessing appearance
She is represented by two unprepossessing abstract heads rendered in polychrome clay.
He was forty - five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick - set, not at all unprepossessing.
He wasn't a very prepossessing sight: his neck barely seemed capable of supporting the weight of his head and his legs curved around in a small ball underneath him.
Individual scientists - because they are prepossessed as anti-theists or atheists, for other reasons as well - say a great deal, both openly and covertly, about the idea - of a creator, that's why. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
One must not be in the least prepossessed in favour of the real existence of the thing," he writes in the Critique of Judgement (1790) "but must preserve complete indifference in this respect, in order to play the part of judge in matters of taste. For sale: the ashtray that inspired William Gibson
'unprepossessing' by the media and with Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden announcing on talkSPORT that 'We think she looks a bit like Eddie Large, poor woman', Susan Boyle booked herself in for an eyebrow shape, haircut and colour, and then went on a modest shopping spree. Home | Mail Online
`Not a very prepossessing one, at first sight, but perhaps he'll improve on acquaintance. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance
As a world-weary New Yorker, my son Sam was less than awed by Moscow - until I told him that the unprepossessing marble building on Red Square housed a real-life mummy.
The man is long-haired and unprepossessing, with tin spectacles and this curious nasal Liverpudlian delivery: the appearance is either grotesque or quaint and the overall impression is one of great foolishness.
It doesn't advertise, it spends no money on spokesmodels or flashy marketing, and the packaging is distinctly unprepossessing. Times, Sunday Times
He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
Her boast was the reason she eventually wed the unprepossessing, even ugly, deer-legged, voyageur who was her much despised husband. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The Worksop club where he learned the game is unprepossessing and, for all his achievements in world golf, his relationship with the down-to-earth members hasn't changed since he was sweeping up trophies as a junior at the club.
But although he lives with his children in an unprepossessing suburban home in this medium-size college town, Mr. Mapfumo's heart resides in his homeland.
Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin? Crime and Punishment
Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
The beauty of Durer's sleeping dog lies not in its unprepossessing appearance but in its usefulness as a hunter.
He was unprepossessing in appearance, and suffered from a club foot.
Though we were very desirous, and our necessities required that we should take some survey of the land we were upon, yet being strongly prepossessed that the savages were retired but some little distance from us, and waited to see us divided, our parties did not make this day any great excursions from the hut; but as far as we went, we found it very morassy and unpromising. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
Lady Ashton prepossessed strongly in favour of the motion which Lady The Bride of Lammermoor
Growing up physically small in the shadow of prepossessing Kim Il - sung can hardly have been easy.
A squat, unprepossessing face, moustache, tiny round glasses that gave an intellectual air. PROSECUTOR
She is lively and obliging: she is young; not more than twenty; yet looks rather younger, by reason of a country bloom, which, however, misbecomes her not; and gives a modesty to her first appearance, that prepossesses one in her favour. Sir Charles Grandison
The longest (although not the heaviest) catfish is the wels, but it is an unprepossessing fish of no great merit.
Maria had, she told me, professed herself to be unprepossessed when she came into Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
This unprepossessing, humble and exceptionally talented tenor (lacking the prima donna attitude of far too many of his professional colleagues) has been hailed as the greatest living tenor in the world today.
the king's prepossession in my favor is very valuable
Another lifestyle choice in the age of Rathergate, Chris Matthews, Eason Jordan/CNN in Iraq, the BBC - accompanied, predictably, by a prepossessed sneer. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators. Mapping Innovation
I had never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one; and who that was will probably come out in this chapter; so that being pretty much unprepossessed, there must have been grounds for what struck me the moment I cast my eyes over the parterre, -- and that was, the unaccountable sport of Nature in forming such numbers of dwarfs. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
For in the first, it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
Less than half a block east from MusiquePlus, though, is a little gem of a place called Merveille Istanbul, a small, unprepossessing lunch spot serving tasty and wholesome Turkish eats for very reasonable prices.
Why, ain't he a bosker! "he enthusiastically exclaimed, as the hideously unprepossessing little mongrel stood on his hind legs and yelped in excited begging. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Their world headquarters is similarly unprepossessing: a squat two-story building surrounded by minimal landscaping and modest signage.

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