Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Well-looking; having a good appearance.

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Examples

  • What I learned from listening to the scanner the other day is this -- local government departments police, fire, medical, etc. have enough to deal with during an emergency situation, they require investment and financial support to ensure that in times of need, rare though we hope they are, we are all prepared and well-looked after.

    Shari Cohen: America: Can We Handle a Real Emergency? Shari Cohen 2011

  • However, it also noted "the younger team must always have in mind the interests of the older generation" and that "this generation who has contributed to Singapore must be well-looked after."

    Singapore Founder Lee to Quit Cabinet Sam Holmes 2011

  • JACOBSEN: She would have been well-looked after in a loving family and so it ` s a shame.

    CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2009 2009

  • So the very next day went Birdalone thither, and found the master a well-looked tall man of some five-and-forty winters, who looked on her from the first as if he deemed it were no ill way of wearing the time.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • ‘Our friend chose Vane, who was far from being well-looked; and Sedley, who was so ugly, that Charles II said, his brother had her by way of penance.’

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Mrs. and Misses Sykes, far from being exceptions to this observation were pointed illustrations of its truth; Miss Mary - a well-looked, well-meant, and, on the whole, well-dispositioned girl

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • They knew that they would be well-looked after they had served their time.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Meanwhile, ignorant of what his comrade was doing, Robin Oig, on his side, chanced to be overtaken by a well-looked smart little man upon a pony, most knowingly hogged and cropped, as was then the fashion, the rider wearing tight leather breeches, and long-necked bright spurs.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

  • The medical care of our comrades was as well-looked after as possibly could be in North Russia.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • 'Our friend chose Vane [140], who was far from being well-looked; and Sedley, who was so ugly, that Charles II. said, his brother had her by way of penance [141]. '

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

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