comely
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Perhaps, in an alternate timeline, Cadillac’s comely and contemporary, two-row SUV might have struggled to find a wider audience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Was she too fancy to have her dental work performed by a comely rattlesnake in the Badlands, as is custom in South Dakota?
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024
The bit was funny enough, but I was aware while watching it that it wouldn't have worked at all if Colbert had been putting a comely actress through the paces.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2019
Massachusetts alone has 250,000 acres of woodland, 100,000 of it in the comely Berkshires.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
It was like a Louis C. K. bit in a much comelier frame.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2012
Colby dreamed of moving to a comelier, 650-acre site on Mayflower Hill, outside Waterville.
From Time Magazine Archive
“That’s like her. Well, you look it,” and Jo’s eye plainly betrayed that she found her boy comelier than ever.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Is she neaw comely?—ay, comelier far than fat, fubsy Sukey here—or than Nancy Holt, wi' her yallo hure an frecklet feace—an yet ye ca' her a witch."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
The phantom that haunts the eccentric Japanese rock opera “Inu-oh” is not the comeliest of creatures — not at first, anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Of the daughters of Dwight Whitney Morrow, Constance, 16, is the comeliest; Anne, 24, the most famed; Elisabeth, 27, the liveliest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that they are two of Chicago's comeliest young girls, have been well publicized by their headline-hunting parent.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the comeliest beauty queens of the Orient, Sirikit Kitiyakara, who is also Queen of Thailand, turned up to open a new hospital in Bangkok, enchanted her subjects with her quiet charm.
From Time Magazine Archive
I do not dwell upon this, for it is not a condition in which the comeliest maid shows to advantage.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
Vocabulary lists containing comely
"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov
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