half-baked-looking

Updated: May 7, 2025

There was no smoke, as in honest London, only dust dust over the gaunt houses and the dismal yellow strips of gardens. Many churches were there, and tall half-baked-looking public edifices, that had a dry, uncomfortable, earth-quaky look, to my idea. The ground-floors of the spacious houses by which we passed seemed the coolest and pleasantest portions of the mansion.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo