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Discover LudwigThe phrase "handsome enough to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when describing someone or something that is attractive and has a certain quality or amount that is desirable. For example, "He was handsome enough to catch the attention of all the ladies in the room."
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Halle proclaimed him handsome enough to marry.
"But not handsome enough to tempt me".
He is handsome enough to be an actor and soon may be.
The actors … Well, Robert Redford is certainly handsome enough to play Gatsby.
But, I told him, you are handsome enough to have had a straight-hero career - 'Yes.
"Tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me" — Darcy's famous insult, the first time he and Lizzy meet.
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When Olds first displayed the new Aurora, at the New York auto show last year, it seemed like yet another plain-vanilla G.M. car, handsome enough not to offend but not stylish enough to turn heads.
And while Mr. Ledger was handsome enough, and famous enough, to be called a movie star, he was serious enough, and smart enough, to be suspicious of deploying his charisma too easily or cheaply.
They were enough like my father when I was a kid to feel reassured by them (Ramis); they were enough like me that I wanted them to be my friends (Murray); and they were handsome enough that I wanted to do things to them I was only starting to understand (Aykroyd, obviously).
He wasn't truly handsome but not bad-looking — handsome enough, he felt, to deserve his hunger.
Raised in suburban Maryland by Romanian parents, handsome enough but too bright to secure a place among the cool crowd at school, Nate was of indeterminate social status as a teen-ager.
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