phiz

[fiz] / fɪz /

NOUN

face

Synonyms

STRONGEST

air aspect light look mask surface top

STRONG

appearance cast clock countenance dial disguise display facet features finish frontage frontal frontispiece frown glower grimace guise kisser lineaments makeup map mug obverse paint physiognomy pout presentation profile scowl seeming semblance show showing silhouette simulacrum smirk visage

Antonyms

STRONG

grin hiding reality smile

WEAK

back behind character personality rear

NOUN

physiognomy

Synonyms

STRONG

appearance aspect countenance expression feature look mien portrait visage

NOUN

complexion

Synonyms

STRONG

color coloration coloring pigmentation skin skin tone tint tone

WEAK

cast face hue texture tinge

Example Sentences

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He is balding, jug-eared, and his pale phiz is blotched with pale freckles and pale blue eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz, So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet today a growing number of savvy professionals value Wagner for an entirely different reason�the rarity of the 1910 baseball cards bearing his phiz.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did—inside, for there wasn’t a crease in my phiz.

From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by Fenn, George Manville