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
It’s hard to imagine any other host this season, for instance, doing such rubber-faced manic justice to a very gross and very funny “Flaming Hot Preparation H” commercial parody.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025
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
The tingling of the batsman's fingers which might result could be neutralised by the use of a rubber-faced bat.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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