HANDSOME

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handsome adjectiv

1. frumos, drăguţ; graţios; chipeş, mândru, bine făcut;

(as) handsome as paint frumos ca soarele; frumoasă ca o zână.

2. frumos, nobil, distins;

a handsome conduct o purtare frumoasă / distinsă;

a handsome action o faptă frumoasă / nobilă.

3. darnic, generos;

a handsome present un dar generos / bogat;

to come down handsome, to do the handsome (thing) a da dovadă de dărnicie / mărinimie, a arăta generozitate.

4. însemnat, important, considerabil, frumos;

a handsome sum o sumă frumuşică, bani frumoşi.

◊ (prov.) handsome is that / as handsome does omul se judecă după fapte, nu după chip.

But do you really? for Miss Bertram is in general thought the handsomest.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He had a very agreeable face, and, I thought, was handsome.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Very much to the honour of both,” was the handsome reply.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And the master said, “You have been a faithful and good servant, Hans, so your pay shall be handsome.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He isn't as handsome as my grandfather, but I like him.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Georgiana is handsome, I suppose, Bessie?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

This was handsome, and gave her more pleasure than almost anything else could have done.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Handsome! Yes, I suppose he may.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

That is very handsome,’ said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I suppose you might say she was handsome.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)