What is "looked the part"

Usage examples of "looked the part".

A tough fellow with a nasty reputation, too, and he looked the part: stocky and muscular, with a wild flowing beard and ferocious tufted eyebrows, and a fixed glare that would have given Ivan the Terrible pause.

The audience was quite spell-bound, he really looked the part you know.

When one looked the part of a knight of the Order and spoke with the confidence of a gentleman, one's words carried additional weight even with one's peers and impressed lesser folk into obeying one without bothersome argument.

He does resemble Monk, and he had paraffin and drugs shot into his face and a few cuts made, until he looked the part.

He was a famous archaeologist and geologist, and somehow he looked the part.

Even the flyers, when they emerge, have done nothing more to change themselves than put on weird costumes and make-ups, although, to Tom's mind at least, many of them had looked the part already.

He looked the part of the hired fighting-man, who had known all vicissitudes of fortune, plunder and wealth one day, an empty purse and a close-drawn belt the next.

Somewhat sharp-featured, with long nose and bold chin, he had often been told that he looked the part of an aggressive, nosy news photographer.

She most definitely no longer looked the part of a Vulcan ambassador’.

She most definitely no longer looked the part of a Vulcan ambassadors aide.

The left he gave to the proud young warrior, Sifrit, who looked the part of a Nordic hero, blond shoulder-length hair and eyes the color of high mountain lakes.

On Francisco, the world of her birth, she had been one of the so-called Blossom People, and still looked the part.