Similar words: overlooked, hooked, crooked, precooked, crookedness, unload, unlock, turn loose. Meaning: adj. not anticipated.
1. In his family he found an unlooked-for happiness.
2. The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard.
3. Theodora gazed at the extraordinary, the unlooked-for information.
4. He had seen this unlooked-for inheritance simply as a source of lucre.
5. He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university.
6. This was such an unlooked-for success that I now only need glasses for reading.
7. This recondite reinterpretation of the classics had the unlooked-for result of keeping them alive and well for many, many centuries.
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8. Such cruel treatment was unlooked-for.
9. Her first collection of poetry, The unlooked-for Season, published in 1960, won her a Gregory Award.
10. Whatever it was, the Regent saw it as an unlooked-for opportunity.
11. She had left the house in a hurry on her unlooked-for journey to London, and the whole of her glittering toilette apparatus lay about on the marble dressing-table.
12. Phoebe herself brought the neatly arranged tea-tray; and the little covered dish of ham and eggs which had been prepared for this unlooked-for visitor.
13. We all desire immediate and direct answers to our prayers, and are tempted to become discouraged when the answer is delayed or comes in an unlooked-for form.