unhandsomely
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unhandsome + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]unhandsomely (comparative more unhandsomely, superlative most unhandsomely)
- In an unhandsome manner.
- 1899, John T. Morse, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.[1]:
- McClellan at once wrote that he should continue to "work just as cheerfully as before;" but he felt that the removal was very unhandsomely made just as he was entering upon active operations.
- 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck[2]:
- And Rudolph Musgrave, knowing that according to his lights he had behaved not unhandsomely, was the merest trifle patronizing and rather like a person speaking from a superior plane in his future dealings with Patricia.