What's the difference between homely and unadorned?

Homely


Definition:

  • (n.) Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate.
  • (n.) Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.
  • (n.) Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome.
  • (adv.) Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (2) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (5) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (6) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
  • (7) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
  • (8) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (9) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (10) All patients were discharged home from two to six days after surgery (mean (SD) 3.7 (1.2) days).
  • (11) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
  • (12) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.
  • (13) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (14) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (15) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
  • (16) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (17) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (18) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (19) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (20) He is shadow home secretary and will have to defend himself.

Unadorned


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
  • (2) All reports generated for Minaret were printed on plain paper unadorned with the NSA logo or other identifying markings other than the stamp "For Background Use Only".
  • (3) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
  • (4) Polydor signed her in 2009 and she might easily have released a debut album of unadorned guitar ballads, the sort of stuff she'd been touring around London pubs and bars.
  • (5) The story is told in a direct, unadorned style reminiscent of the African oral tradition.
  • (6) Partly produced by MacColl's guitarist father, Neill (who has made his own folk albums with Kathryn Williams), it is winsome, fragile and audacious, Steadman's trembling voice and the unadorned plucked strings a far cry from the frenzied rock of last year's debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose .
  • (7) There were no breast-beating recantations but, according to Dawidoff, "he still [had] reservations about how far afield he took country music from the relatively unadorned prewar downhome sound."
  • (8) It bears far more weight now than that of an unadorned record.
  • (9) With that wall of black hair and defiant features she reminds me more of Darlene Conner from Roseanne than any more recent teen creation – the kind of girl who is unnaturally smart without necessarily trying to be an adult, and rooted in the days of grunge when even the coolest kid in school could go around relatively unadorned.
  • (10) As an alternative, if kinetic heterogeneity is understood to be an intrinsic property of neoplasia, the same three historical data sets are fit well by an unadorned Gompertzian model which is parsimonious and has many other intuitive and empirical advantages.
  • (11) Macroscopic cysts of a protozoan parasite were detected in the gastro-intestinal walls of two unadorned rock wallabies (Petrogale assimilis) and 20 Bennett's wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus).
  • (12) His accounts were unadorned and honest, and he explained some of the practical struggles of dealing with so much death when you have such limited resources.
  • (13) Many of we foreign reporters in the weeks before September 1973 had got into the habit of gathering in the snug downstairs bar of the Carrera hotel – across the square from Allende's sober and unadorned presidential palace, the Moneda – where many of us were staying.
  • (14) It is gray and unadorned, a stark contrast to the flashiness of Kabul's new homes and wedding halls.
  • (15) Amazonian Mauresmo, unadorned and broad-shouldered and square-jawed, wearing her plain fluorescent sports kit, has never fitted the stereotypes.
  • (16) Kyrgios played with an unadorned honesty and freedom that rattled Nadal to the point of anxiety time and again.
  • (17) The first run of experiments began with students being ushered – alone, without phones, books or anything to write with – into an unadorned room and told to think.
  • (18) The outer surface of the plasmalemma covering these ciliary projectons is unadorned, but microvilli possess a fuzzy coat.
  • (19) The Texas senator and Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz went further, saying in a statement that "Nelson Mandela will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe.” Such unadorned flattery was not, however, universally bestowed on Mandela by Republican leaders while he was alive.
  • (20) Though the office of the first lady declined to comment, the White House principal deputy press secretary, Eric Schultz, said at a press briefing: “The attire the first lady wore on this trip is consistent with what first ladies in the past have worn – First Lady Laura Bush, what Secretary Clinton wore on her business to Saudi Arabia, Chancellor Merkel on her business to Saudi Arabia and including other members of the United States delegation at the time.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton also chose to leave her head unadorned while visiting Saudi Arabia.