handsome
Usage
What are other ways to say handsome?
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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Kushner showed up — the venture capitalist described him as handsome but also “geeky” — and was ready to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
As the sole writer of “I Will Always Love You,” Parton earned a handsome sum in songwriting royalties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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
Gay needs to establish himself at the top of the England order and played handsome drives in his 33 before poking Mohammad Ali to second slip.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He was more handsome than he looked in the Marvellian news-boxes.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
The Ethiopians are said to be the tallest and handsomest men in the whole world.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In that film, her character inherits a cozy Alaska inn from her aunt, and gets courted by the town’s handsomest attorney.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2018
Queen Victoria reputedly praised him as the handsomest man she had ever met.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2018
He still seems like the handsomest kid in the drama club, taking on a character actor’s role in the school play because it’s senior year and it’s his turn as the star no matter what.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017
And the handsomest, with the darkest black hair and straightest black eyebrows.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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