good-looking
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of good-looking
First recorded in 1770–80
Example Sentences
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Stafford Hopkins is good-looking, brilliant, successful and stinking rich.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
“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
His roommate at that time was the young actor Michael Caine, and the pair made friends with Peter O’Toole, quickly becoming enmeshed in the good-looking, fast-moving London party scene of the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2025
He was young and good-looking, and I could see right away he was conceited.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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