The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unhandsome \Un*hand"some\, a.
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Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely.
Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome.
--Shak.I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe.
--Woodward. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. ``Unhandsome pleasures.''
--J. Fletcher.-
Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [Obs.]
The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome.
--Holland.A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.
--Sir T. North. [1913 Webster] -- Un*hand"some*ly, adv. -- Un*hand"some*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. Not handsome.
Usage examples of "unhandsome".
Not at all unhandsome, yet, now that she knew, she could see his indebtedness, the sure burden upon him, and the truth that, for him, for every child he might sire, there would be no absolving the stigma.
They took us all over Cambridge, which he knew and loved every inch of, and led us afield through the straggling, unhandsome outskirts, bedrabbled with squalid Irish neighborhoods, and fraying off into marshes and salt meadows.
As a matter of fact, his long-jawed countenance was not unhandsome, but his sophisticated grin, with its flash of gold teeth, destroyed much of the effect that Mallan was anxious to create.
They took us all over Cambridge, which he knew and loved every inch of, and led us afield through the straggling, unhandsome outskirts, bedrabbled with squalid Irish neighborhoods, and fraying off into marshes and salt meadows.
Cousin John's not unhandsome face wore the look of bland innocence which meant, as Jess had learned, that he was about to tell a tall story.