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Definition of ordinary-looking in English: ordinary-lookingadjective Not distinctive or remarkable in appearance. a street of ordinary-looking terraced houses Example sentencesExamples - They had to stop at a garage to ask for directions to the local coal merchant, which turned out to be an ordinary-looking, semi-detached house in a side road.
- My favorite gizmo was an ordinary-looking bulletin board in the kitchen.
- The only clue to the crime was an ordinary-looking piece of plastic - but within four hours John had his man.
- They are more likely to be ordinary-looking middle-aged gents in business suits, and a few younger in chinos and smart-casual wear.
- It was difficult, despite his being very ordinary-looking, to take your eyes off him, because of his wonderfully expressive features.
- Baseball managers wear uniforms because baseball is a sport of ordinary-looking guys with a collection of different talents.
- Today this quite ordinary-looking little clam is found in lakes and streams throughout the United States.
- It stars two unknown, ordinary-looking youngsters, and all the major supporting players are elderly character actors.
- We came to number 47, an ordinary-looking store with tiled floors and fluorescent lights illuminating the merchandise.
- The Surrealists knew that ordinary-looking images of commonplace things - from teacups to pieces of fruit - could be employed as tools in the interrogation of social and political ideas.
- Often the most ordinary-looking exhibits conceal a poignant history.
- He wolfs down the rest of his tea and the chicken sandwich that will double as breakfast and lunch, and the interview switches venue to his car, a disappointingly ordinary-looking soft-top jeep.
- It was an ordinary-looking place: the kind you find in any Italian town.
- Jake stared up at the doctor and a small part of his brain wondered how someone so ordinary-looking could be the father of Rachel Saxby.
- When he gets home, he soon discovers this ordinary-looking wooden mask is a magical mask.
- Her ugly duckling role has worked like magic, reassuring hundreds of ordinary-looking girls about their self-worth.
- Just outside the ordinary-looking two-story house on Pensacola Street, four lanes of traffic rush by, but inside, the ground-floor room is unusually quiet and still.
- The parishioners, mostly middle-aged, ordinary-looking couples, sit quietly, their graying, balding, and silver heads rocking to and fro, humming along with the soothing chanting of the choir.
- Her eldest daughter, an ordinary-looking girl, was twelve years old, but I should have taken her to be fourteen, and said so.
- Initially, she is intrigued by this ordinary-looking man, who seems to know so much about her.
Synonyms unattractive, unprepossessing, as plain as a pikestaff, ugly, ill-favoured, unlovely
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