Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pliable; easily molded; truckling; pusillanimous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Easily molded; pliable.
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Examples
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Though the dough-faced actor looks nothing like him, DePodesta said Hill is "terrific" at his craft.
The Man Not Named in 'Moneyball' Brian Costa 2011
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A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.
Birthday Boy 2009
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A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls, maybe; but an idiot, no.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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David Cameron was once a 40 year old simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler who looked like he could possibly beat Gordon Brown in a general election.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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David Cameron was once a 40 year old simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler who looked like he could possibly beat Gordon Brown in a general election.
Birthday Boy 2009
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A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls, maybe; but an idiot, no.
Birthday Boy 2009
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Manford and Jones could be Chiles and Bleakley's doppelgangers – inoffensively dough-faced Everyman on the left, attractive olive-skinned brunette with piano keyboard smile on the right.
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Why, for that matter, had I let myself be lured into that Washington hotel by the designing dwarf Mandeville, and gone like a lustful lamb to the slaughter with Spring's diabolical daughter, or slavered after that dough-faced heifer in Calcutta?
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Glenn Beck, the dough-faced pompous puppet of corporate America, and host of his own Fox News cable show now runs a daily banner beneath his beaming red face proclaiming, "Road to Socialism."
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