prognathous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- hyperprognathous adjective
- prognathism noun
- prognathy noun
Etymology
Origin of prognathous
Example Sentences
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Sutherland was famously prognathous, but Poplavskaya's jaw – angular, horizontally extended to give her square face the look of a cubist carving – is even more extraordinary.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011
It also notably advances the talents of prognathous William Bendix.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Despite such crushing disappointments, his output was always prodigious, prolific, protean, profound and even, in his self-portraits, prognathous.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Forty-seven snubs by forty-seven hooks; forty-seven receding by forty-seven prognathous chins.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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