homeliness
101Pretension# — Pretension (see also CLAIM, AMBITION) is rarely used in place of pretense as a concrete act, appearance, or statement, but it is often used in the sense of false show or the evidence of it, with, however, somewhat differing implications. Where… …
102austerity — n 1. severity, harshness, asperity, strictness; hardness, sternness, grimness, seriousness, sobriety, soberness; formality, stiffness, inflexibility, unbendingness, rigidity, rigidness, tightness, rigor, rig orousness; relentlessness,… …
103churlishness — n 1. rusticity, ruralism, agrarianism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism; inurbanity, back woodsiness, provincialism, provinciality, yokelism, Sl. hickishness; hominess, homeliness, homishness, Inf. folksiness. 2. boorishness, loutishness,… …
104modesty — n 1. self effacement, humbleness, humility, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness, unostenta tiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness, unambi tiousness; reticence, reticency, constraint, subduedness; reserve, retirement, retiring disposition,… …
105rusticity — n 1. ruralism, agrarianism, agricultural ism; pastoralism, pastorality, bucolicism, provincialism, provinciality. 2. plainness, simplicity, modesty, unspoiledness, unpretentiousness, unaffectedness, normality, normalcy, informality;… …
106unhomeliness — un·homeliness …
107compensate — com•pen•sate [[t]ˈkɒm pənˌseɪt[/t]] v. sat•ed, sat•ing 1) to recompense for something; pay: Let me compensate you for your trouble[/ex] 2) to counterbalance; offset; make up for: He compensated his homeliness with personal charm[/ex] 3) mec to… …
108homely — /ˈhoʊmli / (say hohmlee) adjective (homelier, homeliest) 1. proper or suited to the home or to ordinary domestic life; plain; unpretentious: homely fare. 2. not good looking; plain: a homely girl. {Middle English} –homeliness, noun …
109beauty — [n1] physical attractiveness adorableness, allure, allurement, artistry, attraction, bloom, charm, class, comeliness, delicacy, elegance, exquisiteness, fairness, fascination, glamor, good looks, grace, handsomeness, loveliness, polish,… …
110charity begins at home — c 1383 in Wyclif English Works (EETS) 78 Charite schuld bigyne at hem self. a 1625 BEAUMONT & FLETCHER Wit without Money V. ii. Charity and beating begins at home. 1659 T. FULLER Appeal of Injured Innocence I. 25 Charity begins, but doth not end …
