Adjective:

మర్మము, లస్ట్-బేర్,

homely's Usage Examples:

our Swains commend her" (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona) and "O God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain;" (from King.

"This is a big novel – partly because it has to construct and explain its unhomely setting, partly because it has such a lot of religious, linguistic, philosophical.

Lovecraft, the story is "told with a severely homely air of journalistic verisimilitude", yet "conveys terrible hints of shocking mystery".

" Give me, in preference, a homely-looking personage in ginghams, who can trundle the vacuum cleaner and feed the chickens and spank a young.

changed" and "it was a horrible place" with boarded up doors, a "damp and fusty" smell and "nothing in there that was soft or homely".

practice references Freud"s "Unheimliche" (the uncanny, or, literally, the "unhomely"), the idea of a place where the familiar can somehow excite fear.

The author makes a point of telling us that Vinnie is not beautiful "mdash; perhaps rather homely "mdash; but that she has had her share of affairs nevertheless, and a brief marriage.

Give me a homely boat, the homeliest boat that was ever designed, if she is as fast as Reliance.

Gills, Bills, Sills, " Tills, homely rustics (who will perform a circus).

make use of "curatives as homely as parsley, as exotic as dried stag"s pizzle.

Arnold Arnoldski is a homely, overweight and bad-complected 19-year-old who often hangs out with Sid and frequently becomes involved.

the way toward becoming homely.

time reveals only windmills, and the fair damsels are seen to be homely harridans hawking their ware.

Synonyms:

unattractive, plain,

Antonyms:

poor, discomfort, attractive,