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

  • 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

  • No, he just flops and talks, like a half-faced, Pope comedian.

    Cheney is a communication terrorist 2007

  • Freud could write a book on the displacement of 'half-faced' imperfect, incomplete, OED by 'half-assed'.

    languagehat.com: THE ASS HALF FULL. 2005

  • 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.

    The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36β€”New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

  • 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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