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

At least it looked that way last week, when Hopman and his prognathous prot�g�s posed proudly with a sterling-silver heirloom.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a single session fortnight ago they put through 471, including a pension for bumbling, prognathous Mayor John P. O'Brien.

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

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

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley