Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
unprepossessing .
Etymologies
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unprepossessing + -ness
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Examples
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"I don't know about that," bluntly, and yet not impolitely, returned the cosmopolitan; "to be sure, accepting your view of the old courtier, then if between him and Autolycus you raise the question of unprepossessingness, I grant you the latter comes off best.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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"I don't know about that," bluntly, and yet not impolitely, returned the cosmopolitan; "to be sure, accepting your view of the old courtier, then if between him and Autolycus you raise the question of unprepossessingness, I grant you the latter comes off best.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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