prognathous
Example Sentences
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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
This autumn Tammany Hall has on its hands the toughest municipal campaign in a decade to keep John Patrick O'Brien, its prognathous, bumbling Mayor, in New York City Hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are not offended by The New Republic, people who talk slowly, prognathous people, nervous people, gruff men. tobacco chewers, Bolshevists, dreamers, but they tend to dislike teetotalers, clergymen, cautious people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite such crushing disappointments, his output was always prodigious, prolific, protean, profound and even, in his self-portraits, prognathous.
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
