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fine-looking

fine-looking \fine-looking\ adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; as, a fine-looking woman.[Narrower terms: {beautiful (vs. ugly) ]

Syn: good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured.

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fine-looking

adj. pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; "a fine-looking woman"; "a good-looking man"; "better-looking than her sister"; "very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome"- Thackeray; "our southern women are well-favored"- Lillian Hellman [syn: good-looking, better-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured]

Usage examples of "fine-looking".

Square, when a fine-looking female mask struck me gallantly on the shoulder with her fan.

As I came back to my inn I was accosted by a fine-looking man of middle age, who greeted me by name and asked with great politeness if I had found Vaucluse as fine as I had expected.

When we reached the guardhouse, the officer of the patrol introduced me to his captain, a tall, fine-looking young man who received me in the most cheerful manner.

I see a troop of 'sbirri' at the door of a chamber, and in that chamber, sitting up in bed, a fine-looking man who was making himself hoarse by screaming in Latin against that rabble, the plague of Italy, and against the inn-keeper who had been rascally enough to open the door.

Mark's Square, when a fine-looking female mask struck me gallantly on the shoulder with her fan.

The burgomaster was a fine-looking man, pleasant-mannered and intelligent, and a lover of peace and quietness.

Lord O'Callaghan was a fine-looking young man, with wit and talent, but the slave of his unbridled passions and of every species of vice.

I had seen him in man's clothes in the street, but though a fine-looking fellow, he had not made any impression on me, for one could see at once that he was only half a man, but on the stage in woman's dress the illusion was complete.

He was not a fine-looking man, he was not well educated, his manners were doubtful, and his way of speaking by no means seductive.

The count proved to be a fine-looking young man of an agreeable presence.

I noticed a fine-looking girl coming out of the confessional, with contrite face and lowered eyes, and I noted where she went.

I happened to be with Madame Denis when Puzzi presented Zanovitch, and I saw before me a fine-looking young men, who seemed by his confident manner to be sure of success in all his undertakings.

At that name, a fine-looking man came forward with respectful inclination, and said, "Your majesty?

One of the guests, a fine-looking man, on hearing my name announced, said gaily,-- "If you bear my name, you must be one of my father's bastards.

Then he went on, with a touch of passion: "That Bandini is with another Mexicana young mana very fine-looking young Mexican.