bad-looking – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of bad-looking

Adjective: bad-looking

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeworse-looking
Superlativeworst-looking

Perifrastic

Comparativemore bad-looking
Superlativemost bad-looking

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • 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:]

Adjectives inflected like bad-looking

bad-tempered, bad-looking,

Etymology

From bad + looking.