Sentence example with the word 'homeliness'

homeliness

Definition n. having a drab or dowdy quality

Last update: November 3, 2015


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Her own life was by choice, and as far as her position would admit, one of almost austere simplicity and homeliness; and her subjects were proud of a royalty which involved none of the mischiefs of caprice or ostentation, but set an example alike of motherly sympathy and of queenly dignity.   [Please select]

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'Distinction' was defined to be 'a diction which avoided homeliness.'   [Please select]

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Just to feel it once again, the nice, big, wholesome homeliness of it all.   [Please select]

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He's not much to look at, but you forget his homeliness right off," replied Columbine, warmly."   [Please select]

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I yearned for warmth, for the glow of a fire, for a tree or blade of grass or anything which meant the sheltered homeliness of mortality.   [Please select]

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She would endeavor to treat dress from the standpoint of ethical responsibility to society, and to show that both extravagance and dowdy homeliness were to be avoided.   [Please select]

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