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Recent Examples of homeliness
Its homeliness is also its wealth—small and bricked, perhaps no longer functioning in its original capacity as a home to farmers but retaining a gift for earthy pleasures by keeping green, by keeping humble.
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Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
While Nara Smith has gained popularity for cooking entirely from scratch, Bob’s approach is leans into relatability, comfort and homeliness rather than aspiration.
—
Lucy Maguire,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homeliness
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Thomas and Bonner must call out their experiences to showcase the ugliness out there and, with any luck, prompt a more profound response from the league to the issue of harassment.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Historically, appearing fatigued has been associated with poor health, aging and unattractiveness.
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To understand why men might have adopted a clothing system that prioritized plainness and conformity over color and change, this book investigates the gradual crystallization of this civic uniform of masculinity.
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Matthew Arnold, in the 19th century, famously said the qualities of Homer are the plainness, the rapidity, and the nobility.
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All the chickens, turkeys, goats, and pigs carry a certain odor, their makeshift habitat a distinct unsightliness, which disagree with Bruce and his husband Darrell’s more regal tastes.
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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.
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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.
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But Hokit’s offensiveness in the shadow of the president’s home — with the Washington Monument visible to the south — was one indication that anything and everything was inbounds.
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During this period, Dhillon moved away from the Review’s gleeful offensiveness toward positions suggesting a more moderate conservatism.
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“Homeliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeliness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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