tip-tilted

adjective

Archness became this lady of the sunny hair, tip-tilted nose, and complexion that outvied the apple-blossoms.

Love has come rushing to the beck of a tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an eyelid.

There was no mistaking the long, tip-tilted nose of the shorter man and the glinting spectacles of the other.

Robespierre eyed him narrowly for a moment, peering at him over his spectacles which he had drawn down on to his tip-tilted nose.

His tip tilted nose gave him a cheerful, rather impertinent expression.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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