ill-looking

[il-look-ing]

adjective

Older Use.

1. ugly.

2. sinister.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-looking¹

First recorded in 1625–35

Example Sentences

The trial got off to a slow start on Tuesday, as an ill-looking Stone got permission to leave court early due to food poisoning and proceedings were temporarily paused after an audience member suffered from a medical emergency and was taken away by paramedics.

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I had noticed it often as I went about the city, a long grimy many-towered ill-looking place, distinct among the pallid bulks and hulks of the Commensal edifices.

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We saw children tending small flocks of ill-looking sheep on the shoulders of the road; greasy shops that appeared to specialize in the sale of bald tires; old men defecating in the middle of otherwise infertile-looking farm plots; and abandoned buildings that were distinguishable from their occupied neighbors mainly by their lack of satellite-television antennas. 

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French authorities last week sealed off a building that houses a health and social security office in Cergy-Pontoise near Paris after two ill-looking Africans were spotted inside.

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There is also a brand new government hospital, where every morning hundreds of ill-looking people queue to get tested for malaria.

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