Definition of "unhandsomeness" []

• The state or character of being unhandsome, in any sense. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Bating the unhandsomeness of the practice, however, I would ask in what manner does the public suffer by it?"
• "Some of the Tories had so wrought upon the governor, that, though he had first moved this matter, and had given us both directions and promises about it, yet he now (not without base unhandsomeness) deferred it."
• "Colonel Kenton now saw the unhandsomeness of his leaving his wife at all, and he beheld in its true light his shabbiness in not going back to tell her he had found his old friend and was to bring him to dinner."