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uncomely
adjective
old-fashioned or literaryuk /ˌʌnˈkʌm.li/ us /ˌʌnˈkʌm.li/
not attractive in appearance: 不优美的，不雅致的，难看的
She was seventeen, and not uncomely.
The exterior masonry now looks defaced with its uncomely masses of rough brick.
Compare
comely
We plonked our uncomely, middle-aged bodies in the big wicker chairs.
The tufts of grass are unsociably wide apart, with uncomely spots of barren sand between.
Her square flat figure and uncomely coarse face kept recurring distinctly in my mind's eye.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gopping
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
pretty-pretty
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly
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