physiognomic
- a word derived from physiognomy.
Example Sentences
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Is its novelistic world built on physiognomic laws?
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016
Jane, whose judgments of Rochester, Blanche, and St. John land with unerring accuracy, knows how to unlock physiognomic secrets invisible to the untrained eye.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016
A museum label observes, “The mug shot-like portrait captures Hickock’s sullen, lopsided face with mesmerizing clarity, as if searching for physiognomic clues to his criminal pathology.”
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016
But then it's hard enough to forgive him his physiognomic good fortune without having to add praise on top.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2011
Was I not very possibly myself, on this ground of physiognomic congruity, more physiognomic than anyone else?
From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry
