Definition of "onlooker" []

• One that looks on; a spectator. (noun)

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• "If it were at all a likeness, the woman who gazed frankly out upon the onlooker from the card-mount must have been a striking creature indeed."
• "Reading as an onlooker is such a treat and Elizabeth Baines positions the fulcrum of each story with absolute precision and then, with the most feather-weight whispers, proceeds to tip the balance of power first one way then the next."
• "Motives matter greatly, however, in onlooker judgments about acts of terrorism."