ˈdownlooking, a.
(-lʊkɪŋ)
That looks down.
| 1788 Maryland Jrnl. 9 May (Th.), Lindsey, a down-looking fellow, had on a new flaxen shirt. 1800 Aurora (Philad.) 23 July, A number of sneaking down-looking fellows, who occasionally assembled in a group. 1823 Scott Quentin D. ii, A..middle sized man with a down-looking visage. 1842 Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 12 Wilhelm Meister's uplooking and downlooking aspects, the reverence to things above and things below. 1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley ii. 120 The rude, clumsy, stupid, down-looking fellow he had been. |