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

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

As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buchman, a mild, prognathous giant with a Jeremiah Johnson beard, has been working at sculpture for six years.

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