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
In the reviewing stand before the Public Library were General Johnson, Governor Lehman of New York, Grover Aloysius Whalen and prognathous Mayor O'Brien, waving and smiling at the marchers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Buchman, a mild, prognathous giant with a Jeremiah Johnson beard, has been working at sculpture for six years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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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