frontless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- frontlessly adverb
- frontlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of frontless
Example Sentences
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He is restrained, frontless company: clever, composed, serious even, behind the fine beak and popping eyes.
From The Guardian • May 5, 2016
People talked about weather, washing machines, colds, divorce, children's appetites, and at times, after a few drinks, about that fascinating postwar fiction, the frontless evening gown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meek Resignation with her Mistress came, And gentle Patience, and unsullied Fame: Onward they went, nor fear'd the assailing cry Of frontless Vice and barking Calumny.
From The First of April Or, The Triumphs of Folly: A Poem Dedicated to a Celebrated Duchess. By the author of The Diaboliad. by Combe, William
O thou frontless impudence, more than a big- bellied actress!
From The Way of the World by Congreve, William
Let him come if he like; he may trouble himself and his own impoverished patience, but we shall slight him on our stage, and tax him of frontless insolence.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
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