unhandsomenessn.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > [noun] > unhandiness
unhandsomeness1550
unhandiness1883
1550 Thomas Malageuolezza, vnhandsomnesse, or difficultee.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 82v Such Uines as are ioyned with trees for the vnhandsomenesse, can not be thus handled.
2. Inelegance, uncomeliness, plainness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [noun]
unhightness1398
uncomeliness1542
unhandsomenessa1586
unlovelinessa1586
plainness1656
unprettiness1675
homeliness1709
unattractiveness1836
unbeauteousness1886
charmlessness1908
unbeautifulness-
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > inelegance > [noun]
uncomeliness1542
unhandsomenessa1586
indecorum1598
unseemliness1598
inconcinnity1616
undress1684
inelegance1726
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Cc8v The sweetnes of her countenance did giue such a grace to what she did, that it did make hansome the vnhansomnes.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. B1v Couered with two or three threed-bare Carpets..to hide the vnhandsomnes of the Carpenters worke.
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xiii. §7. 257 First, for infirmities, be they either of body or mind, the deformity and unhandsomeness of the one, or the weakness, and folly of the other, they are things out of his power to help.
1675 G. R. tr. A. Le Grand Man without Passion 168 You carry nothing of less use about you then that which you employ to hide your unhandsomeness.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 6 We reach our nadir of unhandsomeness in Ton Ton.
3. Unbecomingness; unfittingness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unfittingness > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unlikelinessa1413
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
improperty1555
unproperness1561
unmeetness1574
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
impropriety1697
indecence1714
paw-pawness1828
unadaptedness1846
unbefittingness1865
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun]
unconablenessa1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
unseemingness1540
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unbeseemingness1623
misbecomingness1644
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
impropriety1751
indecorousness1811
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unseemly behaviour or unseemliness
unconablenessa1340
unconabletya1340
unseemlinessc1380
ungrace1430
disconveniencec1450
unlikelinessc1485
wangrace1513
uncomeliness1542
indecency1589
undecency1589
unhandsomeness1598
unworthiness1608
inconveniencya1616
unbeseemingness1623
unbecomingness1652
indecorum1664
indecence1714
indecorousness1811
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sgratia, a disgrace, a gracelesnes or vnhandsomnes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Inconvenance, a misbecomming, vnhandsomenesse, vnfitnesse, vnseemelinesse.
1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year: Winter ii. 26 Then we shall see things as they are, the evill circumstances and the crooked intentions, the adherent unhandsomenesse and the direct crimes.
1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 350 When they consider that Unhandsomness which will never cease to attend their unjust Prosperities.
1774 A. Smith in J. Thomson Acct. Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 475 Bating the unhandsomeness of the practice,..in what manner does the public suffer by it?
1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. June 338 The unhandsomeness of breakfasting upon one's offspring.
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