1836 C. Dickens (1837) xiv. 134 It was a large, bare-looking room,..with a spacious table in the centre.
1946 May 58/1 The bare-looking store..fronts for a backroom bookie place and fools nobody, not even the police.
2004 M. Gatiss 39 It was a bare-looking suite of rooms with frosted windows and a long, dark counter that occupied half its width.