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He added: "The homely comfy environment like a chip shop that people are familiar with, and nostalgic old-school graphics really helps lean into an uncanny dreamlike feeling."

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

It's certainly a homely affair for James Dunk, who has played every year for about a decade and always enters a team made up of three sets of neighbours.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

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

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

Helen Chambers was homely and dignified in the manner of Eleanor Roosevelt.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

Goffman was raised to be a sociologist, though she tends to prefer the homelier designation of ‘‘fieldworker.’’

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2016

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

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

Indeed, as the play begins, Peg Smith, whose name alone lets you know she’s plain and real, stands cracking eggs at her kitchen island to make the homeliest food ever devised: zucchini bread.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

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

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

Even my mother said Howard was the homeliest baby she’d ever laid eyes on, but she did say that he would probably be just fine once he grew some hair.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson