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Homely

adjective

(compar. homelier; superl. homeliest)

Lacking in physical beauty or proportion. Synonym: plain. "Several of the buildings were downright homely" , "A plain girl with a freckled face"

Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable. Synonyms: homelike, homey, homy. "A homey little inn"

Plain and unpretentious. "Letters to his son full of homely advice" , "Homely fare"

Without artificial refinement or elegance. "Homely manners"

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"Homely" Quotes from Famous Books

... he died, for he was the pattern of the ideal german scholar, as daringly original in his thought as he was homely in his life, a modest, genial, laborious slave to truth and learning, and withal the owner of an admirable literary style of the vernacular sort. The materialistic generation, that in the fifties and sixties called ...

— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James

... comfortable meal spread upon the table, simple and homely, but sufficient for the appetites of all. The three rosy-faced apprentices, of whom a son of the house made one, formed a link at table between the family and the shopmen and serving wenches. All sat down together, and Rebecca, the daughter who lived ...

— The Sign Of The Red Cross • Evelyn Everett-Green

... chief has his soldiers. The agent of the Great Father has his men. Red Dog demands the right to bring an equal retinue," was doubtless what the Indian wished to say and what in the homely metaphor of the plains he made at once understood. "You got soldiers. Agent got heap. Red Dog he say he bring heap same," was the way Elk put ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... waked from my dream. It was a joyful shock to see Joseph beside me, in the homely clothes which had replaced his "Sunday best"; to see Finois and his pack full of my friendly belongings. But I clung to the comfortable present for a few moments only. The spell of dead centuries had me in its grip. Farther and farther back into the land of dead days, I journeyed with St. ...

— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... of her marriage At the Entering of the New Year They would not come After a romantic day The Two Wives "I knew a lady" A house with a History A Procession of Dead Days He Follows Himself The Singing Woman Without, not within her "O I won't lead a homely life" In the small hours The little old table Vagg Hollow The dream is—which? The Country Wedding First or Last Lonely Days "What did it mean?" At the dinner-table The marble tablet The Master and the Leaves Last words to a dumb friend A drizzling ...

— Late Lyrics and Earlier • Thomas Hardy

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