as in ugly
unpleasant to look at
along with thousands of other people, we entered our beloved pooch in a contest to find the homeliest dog in the country
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Recent Examples of homely
The homely atmosphere is complemented by genuinely warm service, making guests feel more like visiting friends than restaurant patrons.
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Lela London, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
The firms today have innocuous, homely names such as Dave.com and Brigit; their websites are adorned with stock photos of young people and families evidently basking in the relief of a short-term financial crisis averted.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
Over-collars with homely top-stitching details look like something out of The Scarlet Letter.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
The colour palette of petrol-blue, canary yellow and bright orange adds to this homely vibe and feels at once interesting and welcoming.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Lela London, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
The firms today have innocuous, homely names such as Dave.com and Brigit; their websites are adorned with stock photos of young people and families evidently basking in the relief of a short-term financial crisis averted.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
Over-collars with homely top-stitching details look like something out of The Scarlet Letter.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
The colour palette of petrol-blue, canary yellow and bright orange adds to this homely vibe and feels at once interesting and welcoming.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homely
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Things did get ugly a few years later, with the Mexican-American war.Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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His users are the ones that will suffer the most when the platform gets uglier.Scott Nover, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Also, there may be three outfits, but that’s less exciting when all three of them are hideous.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
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And in reading on, it will be said up front that government spending is the most hideous, economy-sapping tax of all.John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Newsom has ordered an investigation, but this looks like grotesque mismanagement.The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
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Where the r-slur is concerned, one recalls Trump’s grotesque imitation in 2015 of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital joint condition.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2025
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That’s so great in the book, having that perspective on somebody’s darkest, deepest, most unattractive, unflattering thoughts.Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2024
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The once objectively unattractive 53-year-old has drastically altered his appearance with a very obvious hair transplant.Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Homely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homely. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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