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  • All comedy, entertainment, TV, books and radio will be subjected to this new regime if it comes into existence, no doubt rigorously enforced by an army of boot-faced, unsmiling commissars desperately trying to find some infringement of their rules.

    Enough with the fucking hate speech laws.... GayandRight 2009

  • Is that really the most unflattering picture you could find of that boot-faced harridan?

    Jade Goody Tries To Make Peace With India 2007

  • Jo, probably the plainest pop star you'll ever see "hatchet-faced" & "boot-faced" are some of the descriptions of Jo in the papers this last week.

    Trop Belle Pour Toi 2007

  • The few passing-places were occupied either by pilgrims heading back to Elis and Pheia, who had seized them as picnic spots, or by boot-faced locals grazing mangy goats.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • On this occasion, our waitress was as boot-faced as our first waiter had been charming.

    Dining out with Moira Hodgson 2002

  • Both the Top Gear Tendency, which bangs on about obnoxious feminists, and the PC lobby which wants the commission to be a strident, boot-faced, politically correct thought police are now just hanging on at the fringes of public life.

    The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2011

  • "Both the Top Gear Tendency, which bangs on about obnoxious feminists, and the PC lobby which wants the commission to be a strident, boot-faced, politically correct thought police are now just hanging on at the fringes of public life," he said.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • In the space of just a few minutes, this boot-faced, squeaky-voiced man transformed himself into a model of elegance.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

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  • boot-faced - having a stern look of disapproval

    May 16, 2023