chinless
Britishadjective
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having a receding chin
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weak or ineffectual
Example Sentences
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But he thrust his patchy tail well out of sight and turned his little pointy, chinless face to the future.
From Literature
Among them is a stone colossal head of one of the deities honored in the temples, chinless and without its lower lip.
From Seattle Times
Inside, she found a counter with a chinless, tired girl behind it, and a man sitting at the end eating.
From Literature
It was elongated and almost chinless, and the fossilized bones found alongside it were extra thick and fit together oddly.
From New York Times
Trump, listening to the translation, thrust his lower lip forward in a series of chinless nods.
From The New Yorker
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