homely
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But now they've replaced the windows and the ceiling and Yasir - a trained carpenter - has made their flat homely again.
From BBC • May 15, 2025
Volkswagen was perhaps Sirowitz’s most important account, and the homely Beetle, nicknamed the “Bug,” was his and copywriter Robert Levenson’s automotive muse.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
“This genre is a very interesting merge of something that is extremely homely, extremely intimate and private. Then one thinks, how do you take that onstage?”
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
They have their points, but none improves on the homely originals.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023
He was a stocky youth of twenty years, earnest and homely, with a wide nose and a shock of thick brown hair.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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