tip-tilted

adjective

(of a nose) slightly turned up

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Words nearby tip-tilted

tip the balance, tip truck, tip-in, tip-off, tip-on, tip-tilted, tip-up, tip-up table, tipburn, tipcart, tipcat

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Example sentences from the Web for tip-tilted

I was suddenly very conscious of my tip-tilted nose and of the added toll of freckles that the summer always exacted from it.
A House Party with the Tucker Twins|Nell Speed
She is a dumpy little woman whose small nose seems to be smelling the stars, it is so tip-tilted.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader|Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Ten feet away the wrecked automobile, tip-tilted against a large maple tree, completed the picture.
Across the Years|Eleanor H. Porter
There was no mistaking the long, tip-tilted nose of the shorter man and the glinting spectacles of the other.
The Girl and The Bill|Bannister Merwin

The sensitive, tip-tilted nose to which we owe so much has been ruthlessly pierced and torn.
Saddle and Mocassin|Francis Francis Jr.