Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thin-faced; hence, meager; thin; imperfect.
- Showing half the face; also, stamped with a profile, as a coin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete, Shakespeare Showing only part of the
face ;wretched -looking.
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Examples
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Frank Langella plays the almost alien half-faced mystery man who delivers a button box to Cameron Diaz with the promise that if she pushes it her financial problems will end but somewhere somebody unknown to her will die.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up: The Men Who Stare at Goats; The Box; Nine; The Stepfather 2010
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No, he just flops and talks, like a half-faced, Pope comedian.
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Freud could write a book on the displacement of 'half-faced' imperfect, incomplete, OED by 'half-assed'.
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And this same half-faced fellow, Shadow; give me this man: he presents no mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife.
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The half-faced man and his stunted shadow made themselves comfortable-but not too comfortable, Flinx noted-nearby.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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The half-faced man and his stunted shadow made themselves comfortable β but not too comfortable, Flinx noted β nearby.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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The half-faced man and his stunted shadow made themselves comfortable-but not too comfortable, Flinx noted-nearby.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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The half-faced man and his stunted shadow made themselves comfortable-but not too comfortable, Flinx noted-nearby.
Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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There was not house-room for the large influx of strangers, but the spring weather was mild and genial, and they could encamp under the spreading trees until half-faced cabins were erected for their temporary shelter.
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Abraham's father gave them the old "half-faced camp" as a home, and so the Lincolns had near neighbors.
The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck
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