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dissipated-looking

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  • Not so Brunhild's father (the voice of Liam Neeson), a dissipated-looking sorcerer with a ringmaster's coat, streaming seaweed hair and a harried expression (possibly because he's the single parent of hundreds of impish little daughters, possibly because of the wreck that environmentally careless human beings have made of the underwater world and the world above).

    No Time's Right for 'Traveler's Wife' 2009

  • Perhaps a good influence; for poor Tim, though I loved him, was the most undisciplined, unaccomplished, and dissipated-looking creature that ever went on four legs.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • Perhaps a good influence; for poor Tim, though I loved him, was the most undisciplined, unaccomplished, and dissipated-looking creature that ever went on four legs.

    Surprised by Joy 2006

  • They have brought down with them the chief, Benri, a superb but dissipated-looking savage.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The Mikado and his ministers, naval and military officers and men, the whole of the civil officials and the police, wear European clothes, as well as a number of dissipated-looking young men who aspire to represent

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • “Who is this man?” demanded the magistrate, in reference to a dissipated-looking prisoner.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • This blotchy smudge portrayed an exceedingly ugly, dissipated-looking young man, afflicted with a terrible squint, and whose repulsive mouth was partially concealed by a faint mustache.

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • He was a dissipated-looking youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry, as if he had slept in it, and he kept fidgeting and lashing about with one of those little jointed canes.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • He was a dissipated-looking youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry, as if he had slept in it, and he kept fidgeting and lashing about with one of those little jointed canes.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • He was a dissipated-looking youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry, as if he had slept in it, and he kept fidgeting and lashing about with one of those little jointed canes.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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