treacherous-looking

Charlotte Gwinner's production makes the most of some neat plotting – involving sharp edges, a nasty secret pet and some treacherous-looking chairs – which ensures that this domestic dismay is teased out with frissons of alarm.

The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

Above the harsh, wrinkled brow, a pair of treacherous-looking horns thrust ahead of the muzzle.

THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005

Cars and trucks and boats on trailers clogged their driveways or stood along the edge of the pavement next to a treacherous-looking drainage ditch.

Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994

He was dangling in a treacherous-looking fashion near the top of the rock formation, not all that far above.

The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

Farther back, as befits their lesser place, are the Nereids, nude to the waist, lovely, and treacherous-looking.

Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

Then they carried the pan, it had a treacherous-looking folding handle, out to the Fuzzy-room, and Mr. Grego spooned some onto Diamond's plate, and Diamond took his little spoon and tasted, cautiously.

The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

Wildfire, now sinking to his knees, worked steadily upward till he had reached a point halfway up the slope, at the head of a long, yellow bank of treacherous-looking sand.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

During the night one of her own servants, a sullen, treacherous-looking native, recently in her employment, entered the bathroom by putting a ladder against the door and tearing away the canvas from the skylight.

The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Johanna Brandt 1920

I was passing by a street-seller of scarabs, a treacherous-looking wretch, whose rolling eyes glanced covetously at the scarab -- better than any of his -- that I wore at my scarf-knot, and pressed against him to avoid a great black with a tray of brass bowls and platters on his head.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

Wildfire, now sinking to his knees, worked steadily upward till he had reached a point halfway up the slope, at the head of a long, yellow bank of treacherous-looking sand.

Wildfire Zane Grey 1905