unhandsome
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Or if there was, it isn’t the story that Frank Loesser tells in his 1956 musical “The Most Happy Fella,” about the romance between the unhandsome middle-aged Tony and the waitress Rosabella.
From New York Times
Later, the handsome but inarticulate Christian will enlist the supposedly unhandsome but eloquent Cyrano to woo Roxanne from afar, in a plot of unrequited love, unspoken desire and ego-driven self-deceit that has lasted through the ages.
From Washington Post
I say “supposedly unhandsome” because, although Dinklage’s Cyrano might be deemed sexually stymied by his dwarfism, it’s difficult to imagine anyone being immune to his smoldering appeal.
From Washington Post
An American teacher in middle age arrives at an apartment to meet a man who is older, overweight, unhandsome, a brute.
From New York Times
“Seeing him for the first time, last year, she had stared with recognition at his mouth, at its unhandsome, simian quality, his lips slightly too wide for his narrow boy’s face,” Choi writes.
From New York Times
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