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Recent Examples of unhandsome In the ’50s, almost all apparel sold in America was made in America, much of it in that blunt, unhandsome neighborhood halfway between Midtown and Chelsea, a patch of blocks less than a square mile, crammed daily with hundreds of thousands of workers. Susan Dominus Photographs By Joshua Kissi Styled By Ian Bradley Sasha Weiss Photographs By Collier Schorr Styled By Jay Massacret Megan O’Grady Portrait By Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont Ligaya Mishan Photographs By Tina Barney, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhandsome
Adjective
  • Gauff’s double fault disease was the ugly way of putting a W in the column.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The resulting standoff led to an ugly fight between leadership, the resignation of the entire previous board and Martinez’s ouster.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This question becomes thornier once Dorotea visits Rocca in prison, finding her rude and abrasive though not irrational.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Are people getting ruder these days?
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Smears on non-sensor areas of the tiara are like bug debris on your hood, aesthetically unpleasing but not harmful.
    Eric Tegler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2019
  • His side's inability to finish off the game against Burnley on the other hand was very unpleasing.
    SI.com, SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • But, even though there was nothing the slightest bit ungracious or ungenerous about her performance, it was felt more like the audience being asked to come to her.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Trump, in turn, canceled the additional metals tariff, reverting to his original 25 percent imposition, and then took his predictably ungracious victory lap.
    Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Hart was short, with a hideous combover.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That hideous incentive triggered My Lai and other similarly heinous attacks.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • After reviewing former Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen’s explanation of his abrupt resignation, a Hamilton County judge has agreed to block attorneys’ attempts to question the long-time head of the supermarket giant about his departure from the retailer in open court.
    Alexander Coolidge, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Just six months ago, Mako could not be touched on his face without showing his teeth and would react to any abrupt hand movements.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Anything less would legitimize kidnapping as an instrument of war and set a grotesque precedent.
    Irwin Redlener, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The animals' grotesque appearance has drawn comparisons to zombies and Frankenstein's monster.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Unhandsome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unhandsome. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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