sharp-nosed

American  

[shahrp-nohzd] / ˈʃɑrpˈnoʊzd /

adjective

1. having a thin, pointed nose.

2. having a sharp or projecting front.

   a sharp-nosed airplane.

3. having a keen or sensitive sense of smell.

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Other Word Forms

• sharp-nosedly adverb
• sharp-nosedness noun

Etymology

Origin of sharp-nosed

First recorded in 1555–65

Example Sentences

She seems to have abandoned her more decorous abstraction for “Half a Head,” a large sharp-nosed not-quite human creature in deep orange surrounded by, but also constrained by black.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

The accompanying illustration, however, shows a slanting row of identical women — they resemble accordioned paper cutouts — who hold out toads to a sharp-nosed man about to dive off a kitchen chair.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2018

He rode an unusually short, light, sharp-nosed board—a bone-white clear-finish Wardy.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

That hasn’t stopped Baz Luhrmann, the filmmaker whose adaptation of The Great Gatsby will debut in December, from casting Wolfsheim as a tall, sharp-nosed Indian.

From Newsweek • May 28, 2012

Another involved turning the tunnel’s Mach 2 winds on a series of sharp-nosed metal cones to discover the point at which the smooth air flowing over the cones became turbulent.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly