downlooked
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downlooked (comparative more downlooked, superlative most downlooked)
- (obsolete) Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Discolouring all she view'd, in Tawney dress'd; / Down-look'd, and with a Cuckow on her Fist
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “downlooked”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)