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  • The hardware is frankly homely-looking next to an iPhone or one of the newer Research In Motion BlackBerry's.

    Google phone won't win any beauty contests 2008

  • In this case, I see a bratty, homely-looking celebrity child who is well on her way to becoming The Most Fucked Up Child in Hollywood which is one helluva feat given the people who make up the place.

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2009

  • He lisped — he was very plain and homely-looking: and exceedingly awkward and ungainly.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Short, dark and homely-looking, she redefined our rigid concept of how leading ladies should look.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Arlene 2005

  • He is a handsome man, far too handsome for someone as homely-looking as she is.

    Midnight Whispers V.C. ANDREWS 1992

  • From this close I could see the graininess of his skin, the smudges under * his eyes, and his thin, chapped, homely-looking mouth.

    Earthly Possessions Tyler, Anne 1977

  • River; we had passed some very comfortable-looking settlements that afternoon, one, where we got information about our road, belonging to a man called Shank, who had been settled about four years, and had quite a homely-looking shanty covered with creepers, and garden fenced in.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • A genuine north-country house, strong, rugged and homely-looking, despite its Gallic cognomen.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 Various

  • Occasional little cottages nestle among these green banks, not the Acadian houses of the poem, "with thatched roofs, and dormer windows projecting," but comfortable, homely-looking buildings of modern shapes, shingled and un-weather-cocked.

    Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

  • Those who are conversant with the wonderful features of the Egyptian religion and priestcraft, will observe how eagerly they seized upon and deified anything symbolical of their mysterious tenets, and transmitted them to posterity, figured as hieroglyphics; and it is but natural to presume that this homely-looking flower, with its halo, so typical of glory and resurrection, would have ranked high in their mythology, if it, and its properties, had been known to them.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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