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1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iii. (1818), 108. The faces … were by no means unprepossessing.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, I. 154. The marsh used to bear the unprepossessing name of Borboros, or ‘Mud.’
1889. W. S. Gilbert, Gondoliers, II. 39. It’s extraordinary what unprepossessing people one can love if one gives one’s mind to it.
