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Перевод: prepossessing

[прилагательное]
приятный; располагающий

Тезаурус:

1. He was indeed not what Mrs Price's grandchildren and their friends would have thought prepossessing.
2. Less prepossessing are the three bluebottles on the table decoration poised to divebomb my fried chicken.
3. There were very few respects in which any of them were even slightly prepossessing.
4. Sylvie saw a room of classical proportions, a ceiling painted with the voluptuous splendour of the Baroque, prepossessing marble fireplaces, mirrors, an array of sofas, lamps of the finest porcelain, polished wood.
5. The Intelligence service was even prepared to give young Hans a second look, even though he was not a prepossessing sight.
6. In short, there is something very prepossessing in this youth, with a pleasing modesty in his address.
7. Not a prepossessing feature in isolation but, to the archaeologist, understanding the origin of the contents of the backfill of this drain could play an essential part in unravelling the history of activities on the site as a whole.
8. Ramsey is a heavy fellow with a fat face, and a cumbrous manner, not prepossessing, but improving on acquaintance."
9. Initially attached to the Munster circuit, he was known as a zealous advocate and "an amiable man, of courteous manners, and prepossessing appearance, with a fine forensic countenance" (Madden).
10. It was not only that his daughter in this prepossessing dining room seemed an unfamiliar creature, that his son was slightly uncomfortable, and that Thomas with his mercurial wit and ironic eyes felt like a friend recovered from a distant past.
11. This neglected village has not done much to draw attention to its grand literary connections, though it has quite a prepossessing seventeenth-century church with a delightful octagonal tower and a two-storey cloister.
12. It is not a prepossessing start, as the following example from my past experience as a social worker suggests.
13. It will be received without much enthusiasm for, frankly, it is not too prepossessing.