horse-faced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of horse-faced
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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Steyn said that instead of responding to Warren's attacks, Bloomberg "stood there looking horse-faced himself, unable to respond to it."
From Fox News • Feb. 20, 2020
After a harrowing experience working as a rivet-boy in a shipyard, living with a wicked relative, Orphan Chisholm is rescued by horse-faced Aunt Polly.
From Time Magazine Archive
One was Anthony Esposito, 35, a long-nosed, horse-faced hoodlum who had been in & out of New York's prisons and reformatories for 16 years, had once been deported to Italy and sneaked back in.
From Time Magazine Archive
All I can think of, and all I can see, are people who are pigeontoed, knock-kneed, potbellied, big-chinned, beak-nosed, toe-headed, frog-headed, pinheaded, mouse-faced, horse-faced, hawk-faced, hatchet-faced, and Huey-long-faced.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aunt Petunia, who was bony and horse-faced, whipped around and peered intently out of the kitchen window.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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