Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Looking onward or forward; foreboding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Looking on or forward.
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Examples
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The on-looking contestants, not competing tonight, sing along with Vicci and Nakia fist-pumping the hardest through "We Will Rock You."
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The on-looking contestants, not competing tonight, sing along with Vicci and Nakia fist-pumping the hardest through "We Will Rock You."
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When Atticus stands on the post office steps and allows Bob Ewell to spit in his face and threaten him, I am sure the on-looking town's people do not see it as courageous, but Atticus has someone else in mind.
Matt Litton: To Kill A Mockingbird Reminds Us That Compassion Holds The Key To Change Matt Litton 2010
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When Atticus stands on the post office steps and allows Bob Ewell to spit in his face and threaten him, I am sure the on-looking town's people do not see it as courageous, but Atticus has someone else in mind.
Matt Litton: To Kill A Mockingbird Reminds Us That Compassion Holds The Key To Change Matt Litton 2010
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When Atticus stands on the post office steps and allows Bob Ewell to spit in his face and threaten him, I am sure the on-looking town's people do not see it as courageous, but Atticus has someone else in mind.
Matt Litton: To Kill a Mockingbird Reminds Us That Compassion Holds the Key to Change Matt Litton 2010
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You wonder what on-looking Cameroons are making of it all.
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In Denver is Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, a John McCain supporter and I guess part of this on-looking crew of the opposite side.
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But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.
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When a group fails to meet its joint tasks, although seeing the need and possessing the power to do so, the respect of on-looking groups is lowered.
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Lee had come prepared for the pleasure to be had from on-looking; but he had become the most oblivious of all the active participants.
Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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