Adjective : a presentable young man. ,Are you presentable now?. From Dictionary.com.
She was considered too rough, too dirty, too unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [The Scat Lady] Reference
I guess it doesn't help that I'm a little unpresentable right now. From Wordnik.com. [Read It!] Reference
The ekphrastic image acts, in other words, like a sort of unapproachable and unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Ekphrasis and the Other] Reference
Tickit unpresentable at present, but hoped to introduce her to the new visitor to – morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
She could not attend the party because she believed a bruise on her face made her unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Coyote]
It was already hobbled by the fact that Joseph Wilson is effectively “unpresentable” in court. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tonight on Larry King: Woodward’s Disingenuous Attempt to Rehabilitate Himself] Reference
A great many contain themes and images that would render a board or card game unpresentable in the store. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Just for one thing Brenda was thankful -- they were not outwardly so unpresentable as she had anticipated. From Wordnik.com. [Queensland Cousins] Reference
The words have poured out with a shameless profusion -- much of it unsuccessful or incomplete, or otherwise unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Rosen: Stranger than Fiction] Reference
The effect is not so absolute when it is a second name that can be tucked away if unpresentable, but even then it is a misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
The hypotyposis indicates the schema to which disparate concepts are connected as an otherwise unpresentable cause is to its effects. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Is Reading] Reference
Troubadour Brother, with a revengeful and quite unpresentable gipsy foster-mother, would have proved very trying persons to live with. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892] Reference
Of the acquaintances Yule had retained from his earlier years several were in the well-defined category of men with unpresentable wives. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
A greengrocer's daughter, you know -- quite unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
But the mother is quite unpresentable, perfectly impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
And what would be her husband's feelings if she too collapsed and became unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Nuttie's Father] Reference
Every profession has its unpresentable aspects, which ought not to be seen by outsiders. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Save for some dust, and a swollen lip, which he could not see, he was not unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
But the house was undergoing renovations which made it as unpresentable as a moulting fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Our Hundred Days in Europe] Reference
Those Lydia could do herself, or she could hire an unpresentable older scrubwoman to do them. From Wordnik.com. [The Squirrel-Cage] Reference
When I saw them before, they were rustic little monsters; but they are less unpresentable now. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume] Reference
"But is her husband so horribly unpresentable?" and madame's beautiful eyes are filled with sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Floyd Grandon's Honor] Reference
The reverse process of the production of motion by consciousness is equally unpresentable to the mind. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Altogether, he was quite unpresentable, and very lucky to have a father who was a dentist in Monteriano. From Wordnik.com. [Where Angels Fear to Tread] Reference
"I'm sorry you are such an unpresentable bridegroom," said the Trader, when they were about to separate. From Wordnik.com. [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
As a remote worker, I spend most of my time shut away from the world in my home office in completely unpresentable attire. From Wordnik.com. [WebWorkerDaily] Reference
People had great sympathy with him, for it was known that he had married an unpresentable woman who was an incurable drunkard. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
Her savings, however, were sufficient for the purchase of a few accessories, which made her, she considered, not unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Pauline toiled bravely over the endless array of pinafores which the youthful Hardings managed to make unpresentable in a week. From Wordnik.com. [A Princess in Calico] Reference
Palin did not like the forced makeover and said she wondered at the time if she and her clan came across as "that" unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion] Reference
Her father's suffering visage warned her how flurried and unpresentable she must be growing, and the poor little thing began to cry. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands] Reference
Also, Palin did not like the forced makeover and said she wondered at the time if she and her clan came across as "that" unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
Now Maurice's study was the thoroughfare of the household, the place for all parish preparations unpresentable in the drawing-room, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Step-Mother] Reference
He was covered with blood and dirt, and was an unpresentable object, but he was really relieved to discover that his limbs were intact. From Wordnik.com. [100\%: the Story of a Patriot] Reference
Also, Palin did not like the forced makeover, and said she wondered at the time if she and her clan came across as "that" unpresentable. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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