Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not comely; wanting grace: as, an uncomely person; uncomely dress.
- Unseemly; unbecoming; unsuitable; indecent.
- In an uncomely or unbecoming manner; indecently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not comely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
comely . - adverb In an uncomely way;
inappropriately ,unappealingly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
Etymologies
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Examples
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The dearest of all flattery to the old and uncomely is this caressing, confiding love of childhood, and Miss Mehitable felt a glow of pleasure about her dusky old heart, at which she really wondered.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Even the lowest street trulls only ventured here with caution, those strumpets too uncomely to hustle themselves in the better working-class areas of Beggary Quarter, let alone uptown Brotos.
Petrol Queen snippet marshallpayne1 2010
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In another instance, Young continued: You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind...
Warren J. Blumenfeld: The Church Of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism And 'Revelation' Warren J. Blumenfeld 2012
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In another instance, Young continued: You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind...
Warren J. Blumenfeld: The Church Of Latter-Day Saints: Heterosexism, Racism And 'Revelation' Warren J. Blumenfeld 2012
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Which was when disaster, that most uncomely of all possibilities, smiled callously upon them.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.
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African Americans were no longer, as Brigham Young himself once put it, "uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable, and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind."
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The dangling noose is an uncomely end; even slaves consider it disgrace; to stab oneself hath something fair and. noble in it; 'tis a small thing that moment of ridding the flesh of life.
Helen 2008
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The dangling noose is an uncomely end; even slaves consider it disgrace; to stab oneself hath something fair and. noble in it; 'tis a small thing that moment of ridding the flesh of life.
Helen 2008
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All this shows very well in a girl prepared to obey her parents in a match sanctioned by her father; but such tokens of intimacy, bestowed on one whom a young woman cannot esteem, and is determined not to marry, are uncomely and unmaidenly.
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