homely

If you want to preserve the homely, mom-and-pop feeling of picking out your own merchandise and contemplating the value of a dollar before you enter your credit card info, Amazon is there for you.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Mood lighting really helps make a space feel more cosy and homely," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The firms today have innocuous, homely names such as Dave.com and Brigit; their websites are adorned with stock photos of young people and families evidently basking in the relief of a short-term financial crisis averted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

Smith is miscast as Myrtle, for a start: Her onstage bearing exudes a homely approachability rather than high-strung poise or inscrutable aloofness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

But many of their favorite pictures and photographs were still hanging on that movie theater wall, above the empty mattresses, along with their homely scrawls; and scribbles.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

A number of the homelier mom-and-pop stores on the surrounding blocks had also been squeezed out.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 8, 2019

But when "The Simpsons" and "Seinfeld" arrived, it was the homelier sitcoms that held sway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2014

His campaign is seemingly mounting a belated bid to cultivate a homelier image.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2014

“Bad Romance” stands on the shoulders of these other, identically dressed, homelier singles, the star cheerleader, No. 1.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2014

Noise from outside the house was excluded completely, and even homelier indoor sounds were muffled, and sometimes even eliminated somehow.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The homeliest dish on the menu — sepia-toned braised chicken — is among the best in part because of the swell of cream, morel mushrooms and vin jaune enveloping the tender chicken.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

One woman wrote to her seeking advice about her 2-year-old daughter, whom she described as “the homeliest child I had ever seen,” with protruding ears and an unsatisfactory nose.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018

Perhaps the homeliest, certainly the longest and toughest of Open venues, Carnoustie is a no-holds-barred layout intended to test the best.

From Golf Digest ● Jan. 11, 2018

Whittier remains a minor writer, but his homeliest and most original work helped bring about the long-lived triumph of American vernacular verse.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012

Orr was one of the homeliest freaks Yossarian had ever encountered, and one of the most attractive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller