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- adverb In an
unprepossessing way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is a nice story, even if it yields a name that sounds unprepossessingly like “Neville.”
Faded Catskills Classic Has Mystery Buyer; Currently Seeking Backup 2009
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Both he and Archie looked over to where Jonathan, not far away, lolled unprepossessingly against my car.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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Both he and Archie looked over to where Jonathan, not far away, lolled unprepossessingly against my car.
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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Suddenly, however, the sound of approaching footsteps aroused her, and before she had time to gather together all her sacred belongings, the figure of a tall man, in a slouch hat and with an unprepossessingly cadaverous cast of features, appeared from behind the rocks, which until then had hidden them from each other's view.
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The place looked unprepossessingly new and French, and obtrusively military; dismal, too, in the dusty sand which a wailing wind blew through the streets; but scarcely a Frenchman was to be seen, except the soldiers.
The Golden Silence 1901
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The YouTube clip of Susan's angel voice soaring from the unkissed mouth of that scrunchy-faced, eyebrow-enforested, unprepossessingly dumpy representative of anonymous humanity was the third irresistible message to us all to get over ourselves.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed The Daily Beast Tina Brown 2009
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