evil-looking

1. 1.

   having an evil appearance

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Questions about evil-looking

What does evil-looking mean?

evil-looking means "having an evil appearance".

How many syllables are in evil-looking?

evil-looking has 4 syllables and divides as e-vil--loo-king under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is evil-looking a common word?

evil-looking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.