Word Study
unhandsome
CIDE DICTIONARY
unhandsome, a.
- Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. [1913 Webster]"Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome." [1913 Webster]"I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe." [1913 Webster]
- Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [1913 Webster]"The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome." [1913 Webster]"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." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
unhandsome
beautiless, blemished, blotted, cacophonic, cacophonous, defaced, discourteous, disfigured, disrespectful, dysphemistic, dysphemized, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, marred, plain, rude, short on looks, spoiled, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unalluring, unattractive, unbeauteous, unbeautiful, uncivil, uncomely, ungracious, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightlyROGET THESAURUS
unhandsome
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play, jobbing, jobbery, graft, bribery, venality, nepotism, corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction, barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose, mouth honor, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.For further exploring for "unhandsome" in Webster Dictionary Online