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Answer for the clue "More pulchritudinous ", 8 letters:
comelier

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming , comme il faut , decent , decorous , seemly ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comely \Come"ly\ (k[u^]m"l[y^]), a. [Compar. Comelier ; superl. Comeliest .] [OE. comeliche, AS. cyml[=i]c; cyme suitable (fr. cuman to come, become) + l[=i]c like.] Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good-looking; handsome. He that ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: comely )

Usage examples of comelier.

Truly no man could say that he ever beheld a comelier lady than she, with her dancing gray eyes.

Recently, however, she had overhead some of the other women mentioning private audiences with the Prophet, and noticed some of the comelier women looking aside and smiling.

This state of affairs is generally looked upon as being incurable by any conscious act, and on the other hand is expected to right itself of its own accord as soon as society takes a comelier shape.