Onlooker

Word ONLOOKER
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Definitions and meanings of "Onlooker"

What do we mean by onlooker?

One that looks on; a spectator or bystander. noun

A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating. noun

A spectator; someone looks on or watches, without becoming involved or participating.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Onlooker

The word "onlooker" in example sentences

If it were at all a likeness, the woman who gazed frankly out upon the onlooker from the card-mount must have been a striking creature indeed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reading as an onlooker is such a treat and Elizabeth Baines positions the fulcrum of each story with absolute precision and then, with the most feather-weight whispers, proceeds to tip the balance of power first one way then the next. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Motives matter greatly, however, in onlooker judgments about acts of terrorism. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Unless some sober onlooker is keeping track for you (or a guy with an iron bladder takes it very seriously), chances are you're going to lose track of what number you're on when someone goes to the bathroom. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Most infuriating to the onlooker was the fact that Minto Mrs. Moore never gave the faintest hint of gratitude: indeed she regarded herself as J's benefactor: presumably on the grounds that she had rescued him from the twin evils of bachelordom and matrimony at one fell swoop! ❋ Arevanye (2006)

He was a trick rider, and all the spectacular feats that appealed to the onlooker were his. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

What might mystify an onlooker was the fact that both players broker the other's serve no fewer than six times in the match. ❋ By JOHN MARTIN (2012)

After having been obliged to surrender the supreme command, he followed the army, like a mock emperor, a kind of onlooker, a superfluous piece on the board. ❋ Brandes, George, 1842-1927 (1906)

It is the lovable, part-time philanthropist multimillionaire's word against an "onlooker" at Los Angeles's Madeo Restaurant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the gyrations of arms, heads and bodily contortions which, strangely, seem to be indispensable with the exchanges of greetings among some of the Latin races, were enough to cause any sedate and practical onlooker to fear that a limb or two of the most vehement of the excited performers would suddenly be severed and fly off. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

One curious male onlooker "accidentally" skied by into one of the shots, just before the girls posed coquettishly on a nearby snowmobile. ❋ Curtis M. Wong (2011)

It's too easy for the Western onlooker to chalk up everything negative about China to the failure of China. ❋ Linda Constant (2011)

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