Sample Sentences forcomely (editor-reviewed)
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She gives a career-advancing performance as his comely female companion.comely = attractive
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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)
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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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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 = attractiveness
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For a few coppers I may even find a comely wench to warm the sheets for me.† (source)
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So the comely Miss Ward is going to take you to the other side.† (source)
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But, dear heart, we all have our little weaknesses, and find it easy to pardon such in the young, who satisfy our eyes with their comeliness, and keep our hearts merry with their artless vanities.† (source)standard 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)standard 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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Much there was the treasure, From far ways forsooth had the fret-work been led: Never heard I of keel that was comelier dighted With weapons of war, and with weed of the battle, With bills and with byrnies.† (source)
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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)
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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)standard 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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"Some women don't take kindly to a comely girl sleeping under the same roof," she says.† (source)
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But comeliness was an incidental matter.† (source)
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This he said because the woman was fat and ruddy and thick in the bone, but still not uncomely.† (source)
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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)
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