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  • adjective Not looking; unseeing or unregarding.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ looking

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Examples

  • Late that year, a new scene opened, when an old family friend, Lord Crewe, hired her to supervise the education of his two grand-daughters with the salary of �0 a year, making 'the present prospects of poor dear Aunt Sarah better than any she has ever had' [6] Life at Crewe Hall held some discomforts, being isolated as a dependent in a crowd of 'superfines' whose 'unlooking look [s]' (p. 251) disconcerted her.

    Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1844) 2000

  • like a body being born, like the blare of car horns as I cross the street unlooking, slow.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • like a body being born, like the blare of car horns as I cross the street unlooking, slow.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • like a body being born, like the blare of car horns as I cross the street unlooking, slow.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

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