Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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¶WANLIESUM, adj. Unlovely . [wɑn′lisʌm]Ags. a.1823 G. Beattie Poems (1882) 184:
A waesome, wild, wanliesum sight.