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sharp-nosed
[ shahrp-nohzd ]
adjective
- having a thin, pointed nose.
- having a sharp or projecting front:
a sharp-nosed airplane.
- having a keen or sensitive sense of smell.
Other Words From
- sharp-nosed·ly [shahrp, -, nohzd, -lee, -, noh, -zid-], adverb
- sharp-nosedness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of sharp-nosed1
Example Sentences
“You know they shut the schools for girls in Herat,” the sharp-nosed brunette said.
The face of the old woman alone peeped out from them; a yellow, wrinkled, sharp-nosed, toothless face.
A few razor-backed, long-legged, sharp-nosed porkers are the indispensable adjunct of well-regulated mountaineer families.
One of these, Scoliodon terræ-novæ, is the common sharp-nosed shark of our Carolina coast.
He had a sharp-nosed, wax-doll face with a golden yellow beard and eyes cast down in pious modesty, and he was smiling mawkishly.
We row down the lake, lazily and slowly, past rocky bays and sharp-nosed promontories, and low points pinnacled with firs.
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