comelyin a sentence
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She gives a career-advancing performance as his comely female companion.comely = attractive
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over it; for in most comely truth thou deservest it.† (source)
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Where indeed would be your lyre and your love-tricks, your comely locks and your fair favour, when you were lying in the dust before him?† (source)
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I don't gainsay her being comely to look on, but I will maintain that she's likely to show poor conduct.† (source)
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Pinky watched it for a moment or two, but didn't find it near as comely as butternuts. (source)
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You are more worthy to wear the armour of elf-princes than many that have looked more comely in it. (source)
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Near to the winter fire sat a beautiful young girl, so like that last that Scrooge believed it was the same, until he saw her, now a comely matron, sitting opposite her daughter. (source)comely = attractive
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Even if his bewildered soul could have forgotten, there was a faithful woman at this pillow, who, with averted eyes, would have covered that aged face, which she had last beheld in the comeliness of manhood. (source)comeliness = attractivenessstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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His three uncomely children all take aspirins to fight their headaches.† (source)uncomely = not attractivestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomely means not and reverses the meaning of comely. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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The waitresses are a carefully selected sampling of the university's comeliest females in allblack outfits, the skin-snug tank tops provided by management.† (source)comeliest = most attractive
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The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person.† (source)comelier = more attractive
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It made him shudder when he thought of her uncomeliness, the bedraggled hair and the dirty hands, the brown dress she always wore, stained and ragged at the hem: he supposed she was hard up, they were all hard up, but she might at least be clean; and it was surely possible with a needle and thread to make her skirt tidy.† (source)uncomeliness = without attractivenessstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomeliness means not and reverses the meaning of comeliness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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For a few coppers I may even find a comely wench to warm the sheets for me.† (source)comely = attractive
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But comeliness was an incidental matter.† (source)comeliness = attractiveness
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This he said because the woman was fat and ruddy and thick in the bone, but still not uncomely.† (source)uncomely = not attractive
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When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.† (source)comeliest = most attractive
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