unhandsome ( d silent)

[Pref. un- and Eng. handsome.] *1. Not convenient; difficult, awkward. "A narrow straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pa that way." - North: Plutarch; Lives , p. 317. *2. Unfortunate, untoward, unlucky. ""Tis her unhandsome fate." Beaum. & Flet .: Night Walker , i. 3. Not handsome; wanting in beauty; not good looking. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome." Shakesp.: Much Ado , i. 1. 4. Not generous; unfair; not high-minded; petty, low. "Conscious of a bad cause, and of his acting an unhand some part."-Water land: Works , v. 304. 5. Unpleasant, disagreeable. "Then the intermedial evil to a wise and religious person is like unhandsome and ill-tasted physick."- Bp . Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. i., ch. v. un-hănd-some-lỹ (d silent), adv. [English unhandsome; -ly.] 1. In an unhandsome manner; ungenerously, illiberally. "Speak unhandsomely of no one, whom it is po ible any other person may respect."-Secker: Sermons, vol. iv., ser. 13. 2. Inelegantly, ungracefully, awkwardly, clumsily, uglily. "The ruined churches are so unhandsomely patched and thatched, that men do even shun the places for the uncomeline thereof."-Spenser: State of Ireland. *3. Improperly, unfitly. "And this was not unhandsomely intimated by the word sometimes used by the Greek church." -Bishop Taylor : Set Forms of Liturgie , § 92. un-hand-some-ne , ( d silent), subst. [English unhandsome; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being unhandsome, ungenerous, or illiberal; ungratefulne . "We have done all the dishonor to him and with all the unhandsomene in the world."-Bp. Taylor: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 4. 2. Want of elegance, grace, or beauty.