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Meanings of uncomely in English
Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society.
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Usage of uncomely in English
1
Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell where the rocks are.
2
On the west are ranges of distant hills, low but not uncomely.
3
When he had gone out, Catherine wagged her uncomely grey head ominously.
4
Do you see an unusual but not uncomely formation of the eyebrows?
5
What doest thou in that beggar's garb, uncomely and desired of none?
6
Seen in the daylight she was young, fresh-skinned, and not uncomely.
7
At thirty-eight the Reformer, we must remember, must have been no uncomely wooer.
8
They were not only uncouth and uncomely, but they were dirty.
9
I vaunt not myself, yet women have thought me not uncomely.
10
The works of Dædalus are described by Pausanias as rude and uncomely in aspect.
11
It was the old picture, save for the uncomely modifications of our modern costume.
12
The soul of the modern mystic is becoming a mere hoarding-place for uncomely theories.
13
For, in all my journeys, I have not met an uncomely face or form.
14
There was nothing there but a lump of uncomely flesh.
15
Before, indeed, I deemed him uncomely, but now he seems like to the gods.
16
The grooms came and soundly flogged me for uncomely speech of my Lady Anne!
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