Un·hand·some a.
1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely.
Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. --Shak.
I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. --Woodward.
2. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. “Unhandsome pleasures.”
3. Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [Obs.]
The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome. --Holland.
A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage. --Sir T. North.
-- Un*hand*some*ly, adv. -- Un*hand*some*ness, n.
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