Dictionary entry

Unhandsome

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.” J. Fletcher.

3. Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient.

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.