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underlook

Definitions

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  • noun a suspicious or critical look; scowl, leer
  • verb to be suspicious or mistrustful of
  • verb to look under something
  • verb To miss because one is looking too low.
  • verb to look intently at or into, scrutinize, inspect
  • verb To not give due worth or respect to.

Etymologies

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From Middle English underlōken ("to be suspicious of; look at with mistrust"), equivalent to under- +‎ look.

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Examples

  • _ To _underlook_; to imagine or infer that appearances misrepresent; hence one who _suspects_ is inclined to _look beneath_ the surface.

    Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Elmer W. Cavins

  • The other man smiled comprehension, though he scanned Hozier with a quick underlook.

    The Stowaway Girl Louis Tracy 1895

  • The Pole bent his gleaming gray eyes on the Briton with a curious underlook of inquiry.

    A Son of the Immortals Louis Tracy 1895

  • Hilton watched his impetuous brother with a brooding underlook.

    The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895

  • She had never before seen Felix really angry; but even in the extremity of her distress she could not fail to note a strange glitter in the gray eyes now fixed on her in a fiery underlook.

    A Son of the Immortals Louis Tracy 1895

  • Hilton gave him a quick underlook but did not interfere.

    The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895

  • "I was just wondering how you felt about it, now," she said, with an underlook at her husband.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

  • "I was just wondering how you felt about it, now," she said, with an underlook at her husband.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • "I was just wondering how you felt about it, now," she said, with an underlook at her husband.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • Upon a rough table-ledge, they came to it at last; the place where they could lean in between the trees, and overlook and underlook the shining tumult, -- the shifting, yet enduring apparition of delight.

    The Other Girls 1865

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