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What does prepossessing mean?

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Adjective
  1. Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive
  2. (archaic) Causing prejudice.
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While not physically prepossessing and perhaps less obviously glamorous than her contemporaries, she is aging beautifully, and it is a pleasure to see her work.
Not very prepossessing to look at but this hard, round hairy ball is so versatile you will never look at it the same way again after reading this column.
I've just looked at the pictures of the fish, and it looks even less prepossessing than it did in the flesh, so to speak.
Gap-toothed, bold in face, and of a ruddy complexion, the Wife was no longer prepossessing in appearance, if she ever had been.
They certainly were not a prepossessing or good-natured acquisition to the party.
Adams had never been a physically prepossessing man, even in his prime.

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