handsome
Usage
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Handsome often implies stateliness or pleasing proportion and symmetry: a handsome man. A person or thing that is beautiful has perfection of form, color, etc., or noble and spiritual qualities: a beautiful landscape, a beautiful woman. That which is lovely is beautiful but in a warm and endearing way: a lovely smile. Pretty implies a moderate but noticeable beauty, emphasizing gracefulness or delicacy: a pretty flower.
Example Sentences
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And one commenter, referencing the classic hot firemen calendars used as fundraisers, wrote: “Someone should make a calendar of handsome men rescuing cats and dogs!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Ester Expósito stars in a screen version of Mercedes Ron’s popular romance novel about a business tycoon’s daughter who—after being kidnapped and then promptly returned—gets a very handsome protector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
When the opportunity arose, the left-hander scored with handsome strokes through the off side.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bankers and management alike will be hoping that the message being sent to investors, that the massive spending on AI capex will generate handsome returns, will persuade them to participate in the equity offering.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Trey had done all of those things and more because he was amazing and handsome . . . and I’d had to leave him behind.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
You can get a handsomer guy who has more star quality.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Now, however, he’s finally getting the cinematic recognition he deserves: Chris Pine, who is definitely handsomer than Robert ever was, will star in a new Netflix movie, Outlaw King, to be released Nov. 9.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
The 2008 revival of “South Pacific” on Broadway gave the baritone Paulo Szot, who reimagined the role of Emile de Becque in a younger and handsomer vein, an entree to a significant international opera career.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
There’s even a revisionist version of “Roots” that isn’t more than serviceable but is remarkably more handsome handsomer and better acted than the original.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
‘At least, Papa, he’s a deal handsomer than most of my relatives. Isn’t he, Cousin Sewall?’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Best of all, he gifted us with the handsomest savior in the DC Universe, Eagly.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2022
One of the men, the handsomest among them, kept reaching out to touch the woman’s earring.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2019
Queen Victoria reputedly praised him as the handsomest man she had ever met.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
But to Shirley, at this moment, he was the handsomest boy in all of Brooklyn.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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