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prognathous

[prog-nuh-thuhs, prog-ney-] / ˈprɒg nə θəs, prɒgˈneɪ- /




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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

When commanded, the robot lowered its arm, raised the other, lowered it, turned its head from side to side, opened and closed its prognathous jaw, sat down.

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

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

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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