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onlooking
[ on-look-ing, awn- ]
adjective
- looking on; observing; perceiving.
- looking onward or foreboding.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of onlooking1
1655–65; on + looking ( def ), after verb phrase look on
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Example Sentences
It is exhibiting women with such approaches to nakedness as can have no other design than to breed lust behind the onlooking eyes.
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Instantly the impulses of a woman flashed through every vein and nerve of that onlooking girl.
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The gay capital of France remains the center of the stage and retains the interest of the onlooking universe.
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The three long, dangerously-loaded barges advanced amid the shouts of the onlooking army.
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We might illustrate by the "Wild West Show" in which the onlooking boy imagines himself an active participant.
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