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

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

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

The revised Neutrality act offered in the House last month by New York's prognathous Sol Bloom was drawn with this in view, and all seemed set for its passage.

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