Sample sentences for PREPOSSESSING

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Definition

creating a favorable impression ahead of time

Do note confuse this with prepossess or prepossesses or prepossessed which mean to be preoccupied or to influence opinion ahead of time.

A prepossessing appearance

strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance
They're not a prepossessing-looking couple.'
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
But he WAS in love with her, the prepossessing young man; and all these restrictions of circumstance had ended by irritating him.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
—But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.
Jane Austen -- Emma
Now, you know, so very prepossessing in the lady with the veil!
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
He was quite a young gentleman of pleasure now, and not quite a prepossessing one.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
Her manners were by no means so elegant as her sister's, but they were much more prepossessing.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
His appearance was rather suspicious than prepossessing, especially as, instead of doffing his bonnet, he pulled it still deeper over his rugged brow.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
But he WAS in love with her, the prepossessing young man; and all these restrictions of circumstance had ended by irritating him.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
Marguerite said nothing for a moment or two, as she surveyed with obvious delight the not very prepossessing little figure before her.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
She was young, probably not over twenty-five, and not quite so prepossessing at close range.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
Lavinia is sure of it, and, as he is a very prepossessing youth, you might give him the benefit of the doubt.
Henry James -- Washington Square
It did not seem very prepossessing.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
Near at hand it was decidedly not prepossessing.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
Simply as a descriptive touch, or with the idea of prepossessing me in favour of Mr. Luzhin?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
But the lines of an uncommonly prepossessing countenance were gradually becoming composed; and he now sat silent, and apparently musing.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
Mr Squeers's appearance was not prepossessing.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
I'm not prepossessing.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
When Monsieur Rigaud laughed, a change took place in his face, that was more remarkable than prepossessing.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit

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