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unˈbeautiful, a.
(un-1 7.)
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xix. viii. (W. de W.) hh vij b/2 Euery mannes face is moste made bewtefull or vnbewtefull with colour. 1580Lupton Sivquila 60 Both fayre and foule, beautiful and unbeautiful, go so al alike, that none can know the fair from the foule. 1647Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 503 If we..by..adorning it [sc. guilt] with specious Excuses..render it less unbeautiful and unpleasant to our View. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 223 To..deny him this, is to frame him as an unbeautiful monster, a deformed power. 1692South Serm. (1727) III. xi. 434, I cannot persuade myself, that God ever designed his Church for a rude, naked, unbeautiful Lump. 1828Tennyson Lover's T. i. 342 Nothing in nature is unbeautiful. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 379 No good art is unbeautiful; but much able and effective work may be, and is.
absol.1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 299 Once the unbeautiful puts her foot in anywhere, there..she remains.
Hence unˈbeautifully adv.; unˈbeautifulness (1727 Bailey).
1847Webster, Unbeautifully. 1879Geo. Eliot Let. 5 Mar. (1956) VII. 111 The margin seems perilously and unbeautifully narrow. 1922Daily Mail 23 Nov. 8 A Frenchwoman would as soon be seen in shabby shoes as with wisps of hair escaping unbeautifully from her coiffure. 1984A. Price Sion Crossing xi. 222 His lip twisted unbeautifully. |