plain-featured

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Baker was a portly woman, aged about forty-five, and plain featured.

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Miss Schoffen, more widely known as "Sister Lucretia," is a plain featured woman about 55.

From The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church by Schoffen, Elizabeth

He is plain featured and awkward, but modest and of good humour.

From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

‘As a girl I was plain featured, and so shy and awkward that your Uncle Joe used to tell me that I was the only ugly duckling that would never turn into a swan.’

From Our Bessie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Nice, refined, pleasant old maid; although somewhat plain featured.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Ford, Sewell