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Definition of ill-looking in English: ill-lookingadjective 1Having an unhealthy appearance. an assortment of ill-looking characters were already waiting for the surgery to open Example sentencesExamples - Pictures of stick-thin, actually quite ill-looking young women are plastered everywhere.
- She saw his expression change as he heard her carefully worded reply; he turned first red and then an ill-looking pale shade.
- It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging.
- Two of the horses stood with their heads down; ribs striped their ill-looking flanks.
- The high pace and the rough weather conditions made the field crumble and an ill-looking Bradley Wiggins was defeated on the flat road headed towards the finish line.
- Emma looks terrible, so drawn and ill looking.
- On Saturday morning a neighbour discovered a thin and ill-looking cat resembling the once-plump Brandy in his back garden and alerted Mrs Perkins' daughter.
- The child is particularly ill-looking during the first days of the rash.
- Naturally slim is one thing, ill looking is quite another.
2Not pleasing to look at: unattractive. he was not ill-looking though he was not really handsome either Example sentencesExamples - My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking.
- The city presented, at first view, nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses, built of earth.
- You are not precisely handsome, but you are not ill looking, and you have impeccable family connections.
- William is an amiable fellow, and not ill-looking either.
- "Well, yes, she is not ill-looking," Harbury admitted grudgingly.
- It's a dark, dirty, black ill-looking square.
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