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Better-looking   /bˈɛtər-lˈʊkɪŋ/   Listen
Better-looking

adjective
1.
Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion.  Synonyms: fine-looking, good-looking, handsome, well-favored, well-favoured.  "A good-looking man" , "Better-looking than her sister" , "Very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome" , "Our southern women are well-favored"






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"Better-looking" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of a striped portiere with a kilted skirt of the same material and a Scotch cap. She doesn't look so bad in it. Your Aunt Beulah presents a peculiar phenomenon these days. She's growing better-looking and behaving worse every day ...
— Turn About Eleanor • Ethel M. Kelley

... quite sure, Maria. Sometimes it does seem to me when I am dressed up that I am really better-looking than some girls, but I am never quite sure that it isn't because it is I who am looking at myself. A girl wants to think she is pretty, you know, Maria, especially if she wants anybody to like her, and I can't ...
— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... "He'll be better-looking when that cut on his lip heals up. He got hurt in a fight the other day, the second he's had in three months. I wanted to ask you what you thought I'd ought to do when he gets ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... regardless of price. We think that this statement will mean something to you, for in furnishing a home, although appearance may not be everything, it is certainly a good deal. Between two articles of the same durability the better-looking one ...
— How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence • Mary Owens Crowther

... laughed Kitty, "it sounds as if you thought they would make me better-looking. Now, you should compliment a person on what she is, and not on what she ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant


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