rubber-faced
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of rubber-faced
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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Likewise James Clyde, who gets every laugh he can out of Horace’s valet, Bates, whom Eric Blore made such a consternated, rubber-faced classic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
I felt like Mr Bean, the rubber-faced TV character played by Rowan Atkinson, when I first visited the Awa people over a decade ago.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2021
So far, Jim Carrey’s Biden not an impression of Joe Biden, it’s a reminder that Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging is funniest when the sole point of the joke is “Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging.”
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2020
Within, soft rubber-faced cushions had interlocked; the body would fasten to the headpiece in the same way.
From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard
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