moon-faced
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of moon-faced
First recorded in 1610–20
Example Sentences
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The moon-faced Manning, a Time magazine cover star in October 2000, was widely regarded as a plucky music fan sticking it to greedy labels and out-of-touch millionaires.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
After he teed off in 2003 on the Fox teenage drama “The O.C.” as a “moody, moon-faced trifle,” the show fired back with a hospital scene featuring a patient named Tom Shales, who is incontinent.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Beyond that, it’s your basic array of headless dolls and moon-faced child ghosts.
From The Verge ● Sep. 21, 2017
The aristocratic ideal of male beauty—highly perfumed, moon-faced, smooth-skinned, extravagantly dressed—was close to the feminine ideal.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 20, 2015
Imogene, who was moon-faced and not good-looking, worked her hands and opened her sheet music.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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