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Recent Examples of homeliness
While Nara Smith has gained popularity for cooking entirely from scratch, Bob’s approach is leans into relatability, comfort and homeliness rather than aspiration.
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Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homeliness
Noun
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And as the book went on there was more and more ugliness.—
Akhil Sharma,
New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2026
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Other actors with Abdul-Mateen’s wide smile, soft voice, and broad shoulders may have just leaned on their looks to cover up their character’s least-likable moments — as if gobs of charm in one scene can erase the ugliness glimpsed in others.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Historically, appearing fatigued has been associated with poor health, aging and unattractiveness.—
Ella Alexander,
CNN Money,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That plainness, though, adds to the sense that Death in the Family isn’t packing in unnecessary frills, just conveying what happened and following the facts.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Jude didn’t intend the grotesqueness of the film’s AI images to reflect humanity’s own grotesque behaviors; that’s a matter of interpretation.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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What makes your own skin crawl isn’t just the hideousness of the violence but the unblinking matter-of-factness with which DaCosta films it.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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The push came amid concerns about the offensiveness of the name.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Oct. 2025
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There was a Lynchian quality to the podcast, a fun-house-size absurdism that offset its overt offensiveness.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Homeliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeliness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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