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ILL-LOOKING

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ill-looking adjectiv

1. urât, slut.

2. sinistru.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

And with an elaborate sea-salute, this fellow, a long, ill-looking, yellow-eyed man of five and thirty, stepped coolly towards the door and disappeared out of the house.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I then moved forward, and a murmuring sound arose from the crowd as they followed and surrounded me, when an ill-looking man approaching tapped me on the shoulder and said, Come, sir, you must follow me to Mr. Kirwin’s to give an account of yourself.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This was an article not to be entered on by himself; but a very intimate friend of his, a Colonel Wallis, a highly respectable man, perfectly the gentleman, (and not an ill-looking man, Sir Walter added), who was living in very good style in Marlborough Buildings, and had, at his own particular request, been admitted to their acquaintance through Mr Elliot, had mentioned one or two things relative to the marriage, which made a material difference in the discredit of it.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I think he is an ill-looking fellow.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

For three or four days I remain at home, a very ill-looking subject, with a green shade over my eyes; and I should be very dull, but that Agnes is a sister to me, and condoles with me, and reads to me, and makes the time light and happy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I fancy Lord S. is very good-humoured and pleasant in his own family, and I do not think him so very ill-looking as I did—at least, one sees many worse.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her net by and by.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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