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Discover LudwigThe phrase "scary looking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears to be intimidating, frightening, or foreboding. For example: "The dark clouds overhead were a scary looking shade of grey."
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Or a scary looking predator with a knife.
I have bought us all scary looking energy drinks.
But then we get exposed to Renoir's deformed pink fuzzy women and scary looking babies.
"Darren Ambrose is not only a truly awful player, he is also quite scary looking".
"The layout of the front was incomprehensible, scary looking, and nobody wanted to touch it.
And then … oh my God! Who is that very scary looking guy creeping up behind him?
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The man-behemoth Tad Doyle (of Nirvana's touring buddies Tad), however, was as genial as he was scary-looking.
(He's played, in a brilliant virtuoso turn, by the scary-looking Michael Shannon).
By the way, I've spent a lot of time living in scary-looking houses.
Scary-looking mushrooms might not appeal but anything sweet can go in a cake, and who doesn't love cake?
Various signs of the end appear: a hairless, scary-looking cat; a puppeteer's dancing skeleton in a shopping mall.
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