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boot-faced

British  

adjective

  1. informal wearing a stern, disapproving expression

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Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2016

A boot-faced extra from the crime scene turns out, on closer inspection, to be Pauline Quirke.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2013

I'm not laughing much at his jokes and must be looking rather boot-faced, which begins to make him irritated.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

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