prognathous

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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

Despite such crushing disappointments, his output was always prodigious, prolific, protean, profound and even, in his self-portraits, prognathous.

From Time Magazine Archive

The regal bearing and the profile with its generous, slightly prognathous jaw remain intact.

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