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boot-faced

British  

adjective

  1. informal wearing a stern, disapproving expression

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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