vulgar-looking

He was a typical self-made man, Lucien thought — a vulgar-looking face with a pair of exceedingly cunning gray eyes, hands made for hired applause, a complexion over which hard living had passed like rain over a roof, grizzled hair, and a somewhat husky voice.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

“Who are those pert-looking officers,” says I, peevishly, to the guide, “who are talking to those vulgar-looking women?”

The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

Blombodinga, as they stopped to change horses, there came up to the diligence a very ordinary, vulgar-looking woman, with a bag under her arm, who asked for a place.

The Rose and the Ring 2006

You couldn't expect it of him, for he is almost a vulgar-looking man. '

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

He embraced his aunt affectionately before she had collected herself sufficiently to prevent him, and bowed with the utmost grace to a rather vulgar-looking, self-sufficient lady to whom he was presented.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

A fat, vulgar-looking woman entered with a consequential air, and a face inflamed by drink, gave her a peculiarly repulsive appearance.

My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. George Thompson

A conspicuous inscription on a large vulgar-looking house painted red and yellow, informed us that it was styled the

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

There are hundreds of naked, vulgar-looking dwellings, scattered up and down our country highroads, which only need a little deft and adroit adaptation of the hospitable feature which I have made the subject of this paper, to assume an air of modest grace, in place of the present indecorous exposure of a wanton.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

She was, naturally enough, shocked at the coarseness and brutality of Mr. Scragg, and, ere an hour went by, in despair at the unmannerly rudeness of the children, the oldest a stout, vulgar-looking boy, who went racing and rummaging about the house from the garret to the cellar.

Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 Various

We have had here a brutal vulgar-looking Deputy, one Florent-Guyot, who has harangued upon the virtues of patience, and the magnanimity of suffering hunger for the good of the republic.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady