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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 unhandsomely
 (ad.)醜;無禮;吝嗇地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Un·hand·some a.
 1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely.
    Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome.   --Shak.
    I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe.   --Woodward.
 2. Wanting noble or amiable qualities; dishonorable; illiberal; low; disingenuous; mean; indecorous; as, unhandsome conduct, treatment, or imputations. Unhandsome pleasures.”
 3. Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [Obs.]
    The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome.   --Holland.
    A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage.   --Sir T. North.
 -- Un*hand*some*ly, adv. -- Un*hand*some*ness, n.