prognathous
Example Sentences
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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 he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops in mock anguish, or he goes into a stop-action freeze.
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
This autumn Tammany Hall has on its hands the toughest municipal campaign in a decade to keep John Patrick O'Brien, its prognathous, bumbling Mayor, in New York City Hall.
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
