an assortment of ill-looking characters were already waiting for the surgery to open
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Pictures of stick-thin, actually quite ill-looking young women are plastered everywhere.
She saw his expression change as he heard her carefully worded reply; he turned first red and then an ill-looking pale shade.
It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging.
Two of the horses stood with their heads down; ribs striped their ill-looking flanks.
The high pace and the rough weather conditions made the field crumble and an ill-looking Bradley Wiggins was defeated on the flat road headed towards the finish line.
Emma looks terrible, so drawn and ill looking.
On Saturday morning a neighbour discovered a thin and ill-looking cat resembling the once-plump Brandy in his back garden and alerted Mrs Perkins' daughter.
The child is particularly ill-looking during the first days of the rash.
Naturally slim is one thing, ill looking is quite another.
2Not pleasing to look at: unattractive.
he was not ill-looking though he was not really handsome either
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My aunt was a tall, hard-featured lady, but by no means ill-looking.
The city presented, at first view, nothing but a mass of ill-looking houses, built of earth.
You are not precisely handsome, but you are not ill looking, and you have impeccable family connections.
William is an amiable fellow, and not ill-looking either.
"Well, yes, she is not ill-looking," Harbury admitted grudgingly.