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

Hojlund and Mainoo were the two stars of this mixed United show - even outshining the onlooking idol enjoying his day out in Bedfordshire.

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On Sept. 19, 2018, South Korea's defence minister and his North Korean counterpart signed the CMA in the North's capital, Pyongyang, accompanied by polite applause from the onlooking leaders.

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Then you have the onlooking play, where they're beginning to think, "Hm, I wonder what somebody else is doing."

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In Virginia, bagpipes and The Star-Spangled Banner were performed in front of military personnel and onlooking civilians at the Pentagon.

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It was named for Captain Robert Jenkins of the East India Company who, in 1738, told the British House of Commons that his ear, which he displayed for the onlooking parliamentarians, had been severed several years earlier by a Spanish coast guard sloop's commander.

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