looker-on
Example Sentences
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“I am by nature a looker-on rather than a taker-part.”
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017
When he arrived in Paris, in the seventeen-forties, at the age of thirty, he was a deracinated looker-on, struggling with complex feelings of envy, fascination, revulsion, and rejection provoked by a self-absorbed élite.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2016
"Are you her," asks a looker-on, "or are you the drill?"
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2011
Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of C�sar Franck.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was in truth a looker-on upon the melancholy scene, and as such, was more qualified to judge how sorrow worked in each of them than any other could be.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
