good-looking
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of good-looking
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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“Our thinking is simply own a few more good-looking charts inside an underweight sector.”
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
It was Butch Cassidy, a Western film about two bank robbers, that made Redford an overnight star, but he was never comfortable with his tag as a good-looking heartthrob.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
He was fit, good-looking, and still in his 30s; maybe he should be an actor, he said.
From Slate • Jul. 23, 2025
Vargas Llosa’s air of debonair intellectual only added to the package: a writer for the New Statesman once described him as “tall, good-looking and with the social graces of the Latin American elite.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
Marcus and Javari were both long-limbed and good-looking.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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