slack-jawed

[slak-jawd]

adjective

1. having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slack-jawed¹

slack jaw + -ed ³

Example Sentences

When Sandler landed at “Saturday Night Live,” Herlihy helped him devise sketch characters like the slack-jawed Canteen Boy.

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He confidently illustrates what he’s deduced by drawing a grid on a whiteboard and yammering as his suspects and colleagues watch, slack-jawed.

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Children whose only crimes lay in looking and acting slightly different from their nondisabled peers were sentenced to life in a filthy, reeking room where they huddled naked on the floor in their own feces or rocked and howled in terror or sat slack-jawed and vacant-eyed day after day while a single staff member tried to attend to the basic needs of 50.

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Hopefully there is a point to that interaction other than shock value and Rick reacting in slack-jawed silence.

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Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.

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