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Homely   /hˈoʊmli/   Listen
Homely

adjective
(compar. homelier; superl. homeliest)
1.
Lacking in physical beauty or proportion.  Synonym: plain.  "Several of the buildings were downright homely" , "A plain girl with a freckled face"
2.
Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable.  Synonyms: homelike, homey, homy.  "A homey little inn"
3.
Plain and unpretentious.  "Letters to his son full of homely advice" , "Homely fare"
4.
Without artificial refinement or elegance.  "Homely manners"





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"Homely" Quotes from Famous Books



... lay a wagon, from which the horses had been detached, and which now offered a tempting though homely shelter to those among the pedestrians who might choose to sit on the shady side, or to avail themselves of the accommodation afforded by the awning over the interior. Ferrers threw himself full length inside the cart: and Louis, drawing Alfred ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
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... hamlet, there was an echo from every fireside, and a wedding dropt its white flowers at every threshold. There was not a grave in the churchyard but had its story, not a crag or glen or aged tree untouched with some ideal hue of legend It was here that Wordsworth learned that homely humanity which gives such depth and sincerity to his poems. Travel, society, culture, nothing could obliterate the deep trace of that early training which enables him to speak directly to the primitive instincts of man. He was apprenticed ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell
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... dank air that clothes by night the broad East Anglian lands, and came again to some old perilous pool where the soft green mosses grew, and there plunged downward and downward into the dear dark water till it felt the homely ooze once more coming up between its toes. Thence, out of the lovely chill that is in the heart of the ooze, it arose renewed and rejoicing to dance upon the image ...
— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany
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... not one maiden here, Whose homely face and bad complexion Have caused all hopes to disappear Of ever winning man's affection? To such a one, if such there be, I swear by heaven's arch above you, If you will cast your eyes on me, - However plain you be - ...
— Songs of a Savoyard • W. S. Gilbert
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... the indifference of the Government to a public need; and in them we have a remarkable instance of a people forcing a legislature to comply with demands at once reasonable and imperative. Taken as a whole series, they are homely and quaint, wanting in beauty, but not without a curious ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
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