Word Finder - beauty

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The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.

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1988, "… beauty and recollection, like danger, glamour, greed, hunger- everything but disappointment and desire- were concepts belonging to other people.” -Second Son, Robert Ferro

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Someone who is beautiful.

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Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.

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Something that is particularly good or pleasing.

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What a goal! That was a real beauty!

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An excellent or egregious example of something.

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(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.

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The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!

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A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).

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Beauty treatment; cosmetology.

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Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.

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(in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.

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To make beautiful.

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Of high quality, well done.

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He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.

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Thanks!

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Cool!

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It's the long weekend. Beauty!

Paul was only interested in the beauty of the land.

She found beauty in everything.

It was very beautiful; but the idle fairies were too much frightened at the mischief their disobedience had caused, to admire the beauty of the forest, and at once tried to hide themselves among the bushes, lest King Frost should come and punish them.

We enjoyed the beauty and solitude of the hills more than ever.

And the beauty is no one knows I exist!

A gentleman asked me what BEAUTY meant to my mind.

I could see the way Ginger looked; all her beauty gone, her beautiful arched neck drooping, all the spirit gone out of her flashing eyes, all the playfulness gone out of her manner.

She's such a little beauty I can hardly wait for the sun to set.

Beauty is obvious, but beyond that, I'd say innocence.

But after a minute I answered that beauty was a form of goodness--and he went away.

I just want a little more time to bask in the beauty that perhaps I'm carrying a life.

It was very beautiful, but the disobedient fairies were too frightened to notice the beauty of the trees.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

The woman had Dusty's cold beauty, with feminine, chiseled features, long blonde hair and large blue eyes lined with silver.

There was a hopeless look in the dull eye that I could not help noticing, and then, as I was thinking where I had seen that horse before, she looked full at me and said, 'Black Beauty, is that you?'

None of us would win a beauty contest, would we?

While Cynthia was apprehensive over the wildness of the area, once there, the stark beauty that engulfed her dispelled her earlier trepidation.

These puffs of smoke and (strange to say) the sound of the firing produced the chief beauty of the spectacle.

Giving birth had no way diminished her beauty.

Her beauty was cool and classic, like that of the man before her.

Rhyn was a wild animal with a wild beauty, harsh angles and planes, a body built for survival.

The women are noted for their beauty.

As he drove through the streets past the houses that had been burned down, he was surprised by the beauty of those ruins.

Or why they were here in the first place, as they expressed zero interest in the beauty of the area; Ouray's main attraction.

I've chosen the sea shore as the final resting place for my little beauty.

They both fell silent, absorbed in the beauty of the country around them.

She was so pleased by praise from this brilliant beauty that she blushed with pleasure.

If Miss Sullivan wrote fine English, the beauty of Helen Keller's style would, in part, be explicable at once.

If he ever thought of Helene, it was just of her beauty and her remarkable skill in appearing silently dignified in society.

Silly me, I thought it was a hardware store, but it turned out to be a beauty shop!

In one country he meets with women who, after the burial in the winter, become alive again in the spring full of youth and beauty.

Luria afterwards gave to the Sabbath a mystic beauty such as it had never before possessed.

She was a highly educated woman, and her letters were celebrated for their beauty of style.

Rostov looked inimically at Pierre, first because Pierre appeared to his hussar eyes as a rich civilian, the husband of a beauty, and in a word--an old woman; and secondly because Pierre in his preoccupation and absent-mindedness had not recognized Rostov and had not responded to his greeting.

But the abbe, though he evidently enjoyed the beauty of his companion, was absorbed in his mastery of the matter.

The view of the city from the sea is one of great beauty.

The latter formulated his theory of beauty.

I called him Black Beauty, as I had just read the book, and he resembled his namesake in every way, from his glossy black coat to the white star on his forehead.

Natasha involuntarily gazed at that neck, those shoulders, and pearls and coiffure, and admired the beauty of the shoulders and the pearls.

That very young woman seemed to Pierre the perfection of Oriental beauty, with her sharply outlined, arched, black eyebrows and the extraordinarily soft, bright color of her long, beautiful, expressionless face.

Evidently she was aware of her beauty and fearful because of it.

Those looking for a leisurely activity can drive along winding country roads to enjoy the beauty of the mountainous landscape.

The natural beauty of this area is perfect for many outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, boating, fishing and skiing.

I guess he was stunned by my beauty.

Whatever the reason, the kiss had awakened her as effectively as the prince did sleeping beauty.

The petite brunette had certainly been blessed with her share of beauty.

Why didn't his mother see the beauty of the ranch?

Her cool beauty turned haunting in the moonlight that slid through the curtains.

It made him all the more untamed, unlike Romas's sculpted beauty.

He wasn't chasing the bronze haired beauty, but running through the woods with her, laughing.