How To Use Prepossessing In A Sentence

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
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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
His guide suddenly stopped before a delapidated café; outwardly, at least, it was unprepossessing in the extreme. THE LONELY SEA

He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
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
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.
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.
Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
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.
Adams had never been a physically prepossessing man, even in his prime.
She is represented by two unprepossessing abstract heads rendered in polychrome clay.
The box didn't look very prepossessing, but the necklace inside was beautiful.
In that portrait, now in the Louvre, Chardin looks more conventionally prepossessing: debonair, benign and smiling all over his face.
Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
If you need to stave off emaciation without blowing your budget, this unprepossessing little bistro is surely in the city's top ten destinations.
The first appearance by a man in Barker's work is unprepossessing, to say the least.
She is neither particularly prepossessing in her appearance nor outwardly warm, as even David admits remembering his first acquaintance with her.
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.
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.
Like many of the sites, this bommie was rather unprepossessing above water, but below it was a different matter entirely.
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.
Their world headquarters is similarly unprepossessing: a squat two-story building surrounded by minimal landscaping and modest signage.
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
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.
And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators. Mapping Innovation
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 longest (although not the heaviest) catfish is the wels, but it is an unprepossessing fish of no great merit.
A squat, unprepossessing face, moustache, tiny round glasses that gave an intellectual air. PROSECUTOR
Growing up physically small in the shadow of prepossessing Kim Il - sung can hardly have been easy.
He was unprepossessing in appearance, and suffered from a club foot.
The beauty of Durer's sleeping dog lies not in its unprepossessing appearance but in its usefulness as a hunter.
Nor did he, like Franklin, turn his unprepossessing physique to his own advantage, creating a homespun, backwoods, authentically ‘American’ persona.
Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin? Crime and Punishment
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
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.
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
He and his wife are fragile, physically unprepossessing and teary-eyed from the outset.
It doesn't advertise, it spends no money on spokesmodels or flashy marketing, and the packaging is distinctly unprepossessing. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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.
strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance
`Not a very prepossessing one, at first sight, but perhaps he'll improve on acquaintance. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
'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
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.
He was forty - five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick - set, not at all unprepossessing.
She was young, but attractive and quite prepossessing.
Though unprepossessing to look at, he is highly intelligent.
When I left the Superintendent he was deciding what to do with these unprepossessing specimens of the soldiery. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Despite their unprepossessing looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
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
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.
Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
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
She was described as prepossessing, “open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning.” Elizabeth Fry
When I first went out to New York to do a recce for ‘Changing Lanes’, I stumbled upon a very unprepossessing restaurant.
It's a sleety, unprepossessing kind of day and nobody's out unless they have to be.
A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.
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.
This unprepossessing mare must defy her own humble origins and much more besides. Times, Sunday Times
Growing up physically small in the shadow of prepossessing Kim Il - sung can hardly have been easy.
Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud. Raziel
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.
It is a small and unprepossessing; the scribal hand is unbeautiful. The Times Literary Supplement
To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever. CHAPTER IX
Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
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
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
Quite how Neville has managed to find such an unprepossessing place for a party is beyond me. LOVE YOU MADLY
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
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
He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer. Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum
He took a quiet sip, his wide, prepossessing brown eyes scanning Carnon's swiftly and sharply.
He is physically prepossessing, with a ‘massive build’ simmering with ‘tremendous, dormant strength’.
Utterly naïve and anachronistic it may be, but it's no less prepossessing and pretty for that.
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
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.
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
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
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.
His conquests have surprised many, largely because of his unprepossessing appearance.
He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
A rather colourless pair of unprepossessing portraits. Times, Sunday Times
A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.
The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel. The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv
I said, trying to score a point: ‘A pair of broken glass is hardly a prepossessing sight, they must have put it away.’
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
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.
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
Despite his unprepossessing appearance, he was very popular with women.
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.
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
She was described as prepossessing, "open, confiding, expressing strong feelings on her countenance, but neither hardened in depravity nor capable of cunning. Elizabeth Fry
Flightless, fangless, clawless, slow, and weak, he isn't physically prepossessing.
It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.

How To Use Prepossessing In A Sentence

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