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
"Christ, oh Christ . . . the King's horse!" cried a looker-on.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet the mother's calmness had in it a something haggard, that would have startled a looker-on less troubled than Mathieu himself.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
