Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having a face resembling that of a baby.

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  • adjective Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.

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  • adjective having a youthful-looking face

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Examples

  • I follow her into the house, pausing when she picks up the phone in the kitchen and calls her baby-faced lawyer.

    HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

  • It is worth a peek, however for the many cast members who went on to bigger and better things (Laura Dern, Christine Lahti and a baby-faced Ray Winstone are all very good; Lane is merely okay).

    2009 February : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • Maggie took a sip of coffee and looked up to see Nadine coming across the dining room alongside the baby-faced police officer who had escorted them from the cottage.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

  • Broke and hungry, I lived on the streets, until I met a baby-faced man named Brody Ellis.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • The door to the closet opened, and I saw the larger, baby-faced man peer in.

    Forever Lost Franklin W. Dixon 2011

  • He is a short man in a gray suit who manages to look both baby-faced and wizened at the same time.

    Johann Hari: Promoting Anorexia: An Interview With Kenneth Tong. This Was No Hoax Johann Hari 2011

  • One of them, a baby-faced guy maybe in his mid-thirties, with a black patch over his left eye, smiles and raises his beer at me in salutation.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • It is worth a peek, however for the many cast members who went on to bigger and better things (Laura Dern, Christine Lahti and a baby-faced Ray Winstone are all very good; Lane is merely okay).

    Weekly Mishmash: February 1-7 : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • As I stood in the middle of the ballroom, smoothing out a crease on a white linen napkin and inhaling the sweet scent of lilies, the worst news I could possibly imagine was being delivered by a baby-faced representative from the D.C. Opera Company.

    Skipping a Beat Sarah Pekkanen 2011

  • Maggie took a sip of coffee and looked up to see Nadine coming across the dining room alongside the baby-faced police officer who had escorted them from the cottage.

    A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

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