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prepossessing

[ UK /pɹɪpəzˈɛsɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. creating a favorable impression
    strong and vigorous and of prepossessing appearance

How To Use prepossessing In A Sentence

  • A prepossessing performer with a beautiful baritone, Murray is tall, blond and Midwestern - looking.
  • It seemed incredible, yet it was true; it was proved to be so to me by his pricking his ears and his attentive look at the mention of the word prepossessing him in relation to the money: Government. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8
  • Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society. A Car for the Everyday Man
  • Quite how Neville has managed to find such an unprepossessing place for a party is beyond me. LOVE YOU MADLY
  • He wasn't a very prepossessing sort of person.
  • As he opens one of his most ambitious buildings yet, a $135 million glass-fronted pavilion that encloses two historic theaters and adds an innovative third, he is also working on a civic library in an unprepossessing edge-city near Vancouver. Profile of Vancouver architect Bing Thom
  • Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.
  • To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever. CHAPTER IX
  • It is a small and unprepossessing; the scribal hand is unbeautiful. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He's ditched the Mother Bates outfit for jeans and a crewneck body-hugging sweater, but at over six feet of coiled spring intensity, he is still extremely prepossessing.
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