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well-appearing

  • a word derived from appear.
    appear
    verb (used without object)
    to come into sight; become visible.

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To see multitudes of well-appearing people all joining in one reverend act.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

She noted with considerable interest the young colored woman who was watching her from the sidewalk: a brown, well-appearing young woman of notable self-possession.

From The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

With a wave of his hand he invited the three pretty girls and the three well-appearing young men to be seated.

From Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record by Vance Barnum

For you are very well-appearing, I assure you; and if you had been surrounded with all the disadvantages of the d'Anville, who knows but that you might have become as famous a Beauty as she?

From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various

He's a faery youth who comes on May Eve in the guise of some well-appearing young man and beguiles a maid back with him into faeryland.

From The Primrose Ring by Ruth Sawyer