Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word dead-looking.

Examples

  • Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • Outside the fence hawkers had dripping bags of sachet water for sale; a few sold dead-looking loaves of bread and fried buns.

    A Simple Case 2010

  • Babs, who had been staring at the bare, dead-looking aerial roots of an Evening Star orchid I had on the end table beside her, turned back to me.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • But that hellhole is in us, and we carry it around all the time, just like that upside-down blonde on Flagler Street carried the reflection of the fluorescent lights in her dead-looking eyes while she lay there, sprawled on the stairs, her hair and skirt a total mess, her shoe orphaned.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

  • Performance-capture filmmaking has been controversial in Hollywood for years, with actors and critics complaining that it creates lifeless characters with dead-looking eyes.

    Disney to End Zemeckis's Film Venture Ethan Smith 2010

  • Performance-capture filmmaking has been controversial in Hollywood for years, with actors and critics complaining that it creates lifeless characters with dead-looking eyes.

    Disney to End Zemeckis's Film Venture Ethan Smith 2010

  • Babs, who had been staring at the bare, dead-looking aerial roots of an Evening Star orchid I had on the end table beside her, turned back to me.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • She stared at her mother with “dead-looking eyes,”94 then suddenly became quite still, “her mouth gaping limply, oozing spit.”

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • The glass door that opens out onto the sidewalk is closed, but I can see inside, and this time around the fluorescent lights have no dead-looking eyes to use as a mirror.

    Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.