Homeliness

It doesn't help that her homeliness is a sharp contrast to the declaration of all the men on screen that she's some sort of immortal beauty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is this simplicity and 'homeliness' of the Queen which were so often misunderstood by those who could not realize how much she was at one with her people. ❋ E. Gordon Browne (N/A)

She lays special stress upon the "homeliness" and "courtesy" of God's dealings with us, "for love maketh might and wisdom full meek to us." ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

I suppose United States Senators have been made out of timber a deal smaller than Mart, who was a shrewd, resourceful and shifty old boy with that rugged sort of homeliness which is a good deal better than handsome looks in catching the fancy of the plain people. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Dybwad, being nearer to the Elizabethan time in her daily life, gives us an Elizabethan maiden with a touch of "homeliness"; but Julia Marlowe's, like Ada Rehan's "Rosalind," has something of the artificial character of Watteau. ❋ Maurice Francis Egan (1888)

In the palace there were half a dozen officers 'quarters, and these had been apportioned to the married; consequently the palace had that air of homeliness which is supposed to be lacking in the quarters of single men. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

Perugino was evidently a devout man; and the Virgin, therefore, revealed herself to him in loftier and sweeter faces of celestial womanhood, and yet with a kind of homeliness in their human mould, than even the genius of Raphael could imagine. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

Just because men didn't fill their diaries with their notion of "homeliness" doesn't mean they weren't interested in it, nor does it deter Vickery from trying to find out the details. ❋ By ANDREA WULF (2009)

"homeliness," or, as we would now say, since this term has been perverted, of "hominess," the suggestion of adding to the pleasure of the household. ❋ Marion Mills Miller (1906)

In these poems will be found that love of homeliness which is characteristic of all true poets ” and orators too, in as far as they are poets. ❋ MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 (1868)

It's clean and modern but has enough quirks—like the teardrop belly of the a—to keep a friendly homeliness. ❋ Simon Garfield (2011)

Once awakened emotionally and mentally, diet, discipline and exercise are all that are required to transform homeliness into comeliness. ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

If you could combine the richness of a brownie with the crunch of cookie, the homeliness of a slice of pie, the lightness of whipped cream all laced with a splash of rum, than this would be it. ❋ Mercedes (2009)

Cuteness is commonplace and generous, content on occasion to cosegregate with homeliness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Its distinctive homeliness has made it a hit, at a time when Honda has cancelled production of the hybrid version of the Accord: it turned out nobody wanted to buy a hybrid that was indistinguishable from an iceberg-melting V-6. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And it skeeves me out when the "handicap" is nothing more than homeliness and a lack of style. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Those people fetishizing her based on her homeliness are no different than anyone who wants to whip her up and transform her into a little entertainment doll. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

It's difficult to provide plausible examples of 'eating many biscuits', as the core informality arises from the intrinsic homeliness of this situation. ❋ DC (2009)

[That woman] is homelier than a bag full of assholes!! ❋ Englethrope B Squeebe (2007)