hatchet-faced

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English

Adjective

hatchet-faced (comparative more hatchet-faced, superlative most hatchet-faced)

  1. (of a person) Having a narrow face with sharp, angular features.
    • 2012, Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps, page 133:
      There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchet-faced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second.

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