onlooking

[ on-look-ing, awn- ]

adjective

1. looking on; observing; perceiving.
2. looking onward or foreboding.

Word History and Origins

Origin of onlooking¹

1655–65; on + looking ( def ), after verb phrase look on

Example Sentences

It all began with a meticulously schemed fake drowning just feet from his onlooking wife in the fast currents of Arkansas’ Little Red River in the winter of 2008.

From Ozy

It is exhibiting women with such approaches to nakedness as can have no other design than to breed lust behind the onlooking eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Instantly the impulses of a woman flashed through every vein and nerve of that onlooking girl.

From Project Gutenberg

The gay capital of France remains the center of the stage and retains the interest of the onlooking universe.

From Project Gutenberg

The three long, dangerously-loaded barges advanced amid the shouts of the onlooking army.

From Project Gutenberg

We might illustrate by the "Wild West Show" in which the onlooking boy imagines himself an active participant.

From Project Gutenberg