onlooker
spectator; observer; witness.
Origin of onlooker
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How to use onlooker in a sentence
The paper reports: “It was utterly shocking to watch,” said one onlooker.
Art Kingpin Charles Saatchi Photographed Squeezing Nigella Lawson's Throat In London Restaurant | Tom Sykes | June 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEveryone has fallen into the predictable roles of condemner, (rare and tentative) defender, and gleeful onlooker.
The Anthony Weiner Scandal: C’mon, America, Nobody’s Perfect | Lee Siegel | June 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was wearing an "incredibly low-cut dress," one onlooker said.
There can hardly have been an onlooker who would not have wanted to go up to the young man and shake his hand.
Asked one onlooker motioning toward the crush of people blockading every clothes rack.
He looked into the eyes of great Osiris,… and that part of him that ever watched—the great onlooker—smiled.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodTchernitchev delayed his departure, remaining merely as an onlooker, to give the Prussians the support of his presence.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntBut the performance that stopped every heart and made every onlooker hold his breath was the parachute jumps.
The Flying Reporter | Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) TheissBy nightfall the place was the scene of great activity, and to an onlooker produced a singular effect.
Ocean to Ocean on Horseback | Willard GlazierIt is usually the onlooker who sees that, just as a critic sees more in a picture than the painter ever put there.
The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton Merriman
British Dictionary definitions for onlooker
/ (ˈɒnˌlʊkə) /
a person who observes without taking part
Derived forms of onlooker
- onlooking, adjective
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