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Adjective
moon-faced (comparative more moon-faced, superlative most moon-faced)
- Having a round or moon-shaped face.
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127:“Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes! But there’s worse than that.”
1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer
1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:"I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."
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