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  • adjective superlative form of handsome: most handsome.

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Examples

  • Thorpe had even heard him called the handsomest man in England -- though this seemed in all likelihood an exaggeration.

    The Market-Place Harold Frederic 1877

  • I think of his marrying her the moment she was widowed, in defiance of all the rules, and their being called the handsomest couple in England, married for love, which nobody but the two of them would have dared to do.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I think of his marrying her the moment she was widowed, in defiance of all the rules, and their being called the handsomest couple in England, married for love, which nobody but the two of them would have dared to do.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • I think of his marrying her the moment she was widowed, in defiance of all the rules, and their being called the handsomest couple in England, married for love, which nobody but the two of them would have dared to do.

    The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009

  • The commander of his flagship Erebus, James Fitzjames, often called the handsomest man in the Royal Navy, looked as striking and humble as the war hero he was.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Then the father would force her to marry his son, who was known as the handsomest man in Scotland.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Then the father would force her to marry his son, who was known as the handsomest man in Scotland.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • "No, nor the Holmes's Hole folks don't think much of Oldtown; it's pretty much according to who you talk to, which place is called the handsomest, I reckon."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • "I think, my dear Brigit, that you are about the handsomest woman I ever saw -- that is, the handsomest _dark_ woman; but you look so damned ill-tempered that you will be hideous in ten years 'time."

    The Halo Bettina Von Hutten 1915

  • The handsomest was the richly colored tiger bittern.

    IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914

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