Meanings
comparative more unhandsomely · superlative most unhandsomely
- In an unhandsome manner.
McClellan at once wrote that he should continue to "work just as cheerfully as before;" but he felt that the removal was very unhandsomely made just as he was entering upon active operations.
1899, John T. Morse, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.1 more example
And Rudolph Musgrave, knowing that according to his lights he had behaved not unhandsomely, was the merest trifle patronizing and rather like a person speaking from a superior plane in his future dealings with Patricia.
1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck
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