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
n. Quality of being unhandsome.