'unlooked-for' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is unexpected or surprising, usually in a negative context. For example, "The news of his death was an unlooked-for shock."
Stranded on the shores of an unlooked-for Indian summer, Burnet bakes.
Sloane says it's hard to say: "[Women leaders] tend to arrive slightly unlooked-for.
Such unlooked-for artists learn to make do with their situations, with the rough materials at hand.
With that unlooked-for transformation from a trading power to a governing power, the rationale for the Raj changed.
The most astonishing change in American life in recent times has been the unlooked-for disappearance of violent crime.
And, an unlooked-for bonus, he is seemingly incapable of writing a book that fails to be interesting.
Now, all unlooked for, life is looking up.
Threadneedle Street is taking full advantage of the situation: dropping strong hints of further interest rate cuts to come is designed to ensure that the unlooked for competitive boost provided by the referendum is not dissipated.
Of course, it may well also transpire that the approach is the right one, at the right time and an unlooked for opportunity presents itself and leads to a new chapter in your career.
The strains of big events whether anticipated, like a sports festival, or unlooked for, like a flood could be predicted and planned for.Some want to build the sort of data networks necessary for this into new cities from the start (see box).
Plenty, no doubt, there have been more perilous, exciting, or catastrophic, but was there ever one so unlooked for, so full of strange possibilities, so anomalous superficially and, at bottom, so perfectly illustrating at once the genius of our people and the spirit of the Constitution?
