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prognathous

[prog-nuh-thuhs, prog-ney-] / ˈprɒg nə θəs, prɒgˈneɪ- /




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Sutherland was famously prognathous, but Poplavskaya's jaw – angular, horizontally extended to give her square face the look of a cubist carving – is even more extraordinary.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2011

Buchman, a mild, prognathous giant with a Jeremiah Johnson beard, has been working at sculpture for six years.

From Time Magazine Archive

To celebrate this deed, the Evening Post's Cartoonist Sebastian Robles drew a caricature of grinning Mayor LaGuardia which, when inverted, reveals the prognathous face of ex-Mayor O'Brien.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forty-seven snubs by forty-seven hooks; forty-seven receding by forty-seven prognathous chins.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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