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unprepossessing
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Definition:giving an unfavorable impression
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It was only on the supposition that no good nurse would have entered so irregular a household as Anna's that Darya Alexandrovna could explain to herself how Anna with her insight into people could take such an unprepossessing, disreputable-looking woman as nurse to her child.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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