insignificant-looking

• “They were such insignificant-looking objects, but this giant, marvelous airship had fought its way across Europe to bring them here.”

  Simon & Schuster: Behemoth

• “This fossil, about 30,000-50,000 years old, was an insignificant-looking finger bone whose mitochondrial DNA was not only very different from any modern human, but even more different from humans than Neandertals are.”

  Neanderthal/human interbreeding - the old-earth response - The Panda's Thumb

• “Gwyllyn was an insignificant-looking man, light-boned and mousy-haired, but you didn't see him once he began to sing.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “However, at one of the two dozen tables, sat a stranger; an insignificant-looking bald man with little puffs of white hair sprouting from behind each ear.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Butterfly

• “I had a strange eureka moment when one of the women finally came over to give it to me—a tiny, insignificant-looking piece of paper that allowed us to start work on the riad.”

  Simon & Schuster: A House in Fez

• “In a small shop, Katy nudged her toward a “most insignificant-looking pink frock, so slightly décolleté that I blushed with shame.””

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “He is small and insignificant-looking, slightly built, thinning blond hair, not ugly, just insignificant.”

  Predator

• “And such an ugly insignificant-looking creature, too.”

  The Inspector-General

• “Yes, and she had to remember, too, a fair proportion of smaller, sometimes insignificant-looking men, some of them scaly with dirt, who looked at you with a cold, mud-like antagonism as they stepped cattishly past.”

  The Plumed Serpent

• “I never see Rachel myself without wondering how it can be that so insignificant-looking a person should be the child of such distinguished parents as Sir John and”

  The Moonstone

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