All 4 Uses of
comely
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.†
Chpt 1 *comely = attractive
- And Mr. Hubbard tramped downstairs, followed by the assistant, who glanced back at Dorian with a look of shy wonder in his rough, uncomely face.†
Chpt 10uncomely = 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.
- Yes: there was to be, as Lord Henry had prophesied, a new Hedonism that was to recreate life, and to save it from that harsh, uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival.†
Chpt 11
- , who had so wildly adored his brother's wife that a leper had warned him of the insanity that was coming on him, and who, when his brain had sickened and grown strange, could only be soothed by Saracen cards painted with the images of Love and Death and Madness; and, in his trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap and acanthus-like curls, Grifonetto Baglioni, who slew Astorre with his bride, and Simonetto with his page, and whose comeliness was such that, as he lay dying in the yellow piazza of Perugia, those who had hated him could not choose but weep, and Atalanta, who had cursed him, blessed him.†
Chpt 11comeliness = attractiveness
Definition:
attractive -- especially of a woman