Adjective: bad-looking
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | worse-looking |
| Superlative | worst-looking |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bad-looking |
| Superlative | most bad-looking |
Sample Sentences
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This was the worst-looking house on the street. Why had he taken it on? He'd told her that he was planning to do most of the renovation work himself. [2008, Fiona Gibson, Something Good, →ISBN, page 33:]
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Aside from being desirable on macroeconomic grounds, a policy of the lowest possible unemployment would create the additional benefit of reducing the earnings disadvantage of bad-looking workers; and it might even spill over to their treatment in other areas. [2011, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, →ISBN, page 178:]
Etymology
From bad + looking.