prognathous
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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
At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien.
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A sophisticated comedy with enough snap in its dialogue and situations to earn a passing grade, it demands only a minimum performance from the hard-eyed, prognathous beauty who was once queen of the silent movies.
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The regal bearing and the profile with its generous, slightly prognathous jaw remain intact.
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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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