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Definition of Better-looking
1. Adjective. Pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion. "Our southern women are well-favored"
Similar to: Beautiful
Derivative terms: Handsomeness
Definition of Better-looking
1. Adjective. (comparative of good-looking) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Better-looking
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1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Rarely does a house strike one as being specially marked or better looking than
its neighbors ; more substantial, certainly, some of them are, and yet there ..."
2. An Uncensored Diary from the Central Empires by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt (1917)
"... who could have provided her with much better-looking clothes, and more of
them, than Count B . She went home in a rage and told the Count, ..."
3. The Story-life of Lincoln: A Biography Composed of Five Hundred True Stories by Wayne Whipple (1908)
"... ELECTED, INAUGURATED 6o1 "I'm the Longest, but McClellan's Better Looking"
One evening in September, 1864, I was invited by a few friends to go with ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1856)
"Good heavens ! it was the man I had seen in the park so often, if possible, better
looking with, his hat off than I had thought him in his morning costume, ..."
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