Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face resembling putty in pastiness or color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective White-faced; -- used contemptuously.
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Examples
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On the contrary, it is inhabited by a coven of infernal hobgoblins, putty-faced freaks, monsters from the id.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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Much better than in Vegas, where lighting gave everyone a slightly putty-faced look.
Liveblog! Realizing MLK's Dream On A South Carolina Stage John Neffinger 2010
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Much better than in Vegas, where lighting gave everyone a slightly putty-faced look.
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Much better than in Vegas, where lighting gave everyone a slightly putty-faced look.
John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar: Liveblog! Realizing MLK's Dream On A South Carolina Stage John Neffinger 2010
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If the woman had been some one of distinction — some sorceress of the stage, or of the world of art, or letters, his action would have been explicable if not commendable, but with this creature of very ordinary capabilities, as Louise had described her, this putty-faced nobody — he could not possibly understand it.
Jennie Gerhardt 2004
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"You don't say so, Don Ernesto!" said his podgy, putty-faced little
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Allison had not stirred, nor putty-faced Wickersham, nor the girl who stood with hands at breasts.
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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"Her smiling face, with no word from her even, is a wonderful revelation to people who judge the Chinese by the putty-faced laundrymen, the only specimen of China they have ever seen," said Miss
Notable Women of Modern China Margaret E. Burton
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So long had he held her in withering contempt, just because of her relationship to her father, so long had he invested her with all thinkably distasteful attributes, so long had he in his out-of-hand way named her squidge-nosed, putty-faced, pig-eyed, and so on, that in due course he had really formed his own image of her.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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The low-down bunch of little prairie dawgs, tryin 'to trap a Packard with puttin' a putty-faced fool girl in their snare.
Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912
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