Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hatchet-face; having a thin face with prominent features.
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- adjective of a person Having a
narrow face withsharp features
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Examples
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Always hovering nearby is his private secretary, Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, a hatchet-faced former SAS officer who looks as though he would rather be cracking skulls than carrying the bouquets thrust into the prince's hands on walkabouts.
Prince William: how he has coped with a life in the spotlight 2011
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The hatchet-faced apparatchiks crumpled into tears as she explained why she was in such a hurry to visit Siberia.
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Cynlas of Rhos was a big, hatchet-faced man of fifty or thereabout, broadly built and tall, the weathered skin of his face beginning to loosen over the bluntly prominent bones, his ox-blood-colored hair and mustache just threaded with gray.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Behind the counter, a nice-looking blond guy and a hatchet-faced woman who seemed too old to be steaming milk for a living talked about television while they cleaned the wood-grained laminate and straightened stacks of prepackaged biscotti.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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A hatchet-faced cadet named Vanderlick thrust his head through a doorway.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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Cynlas of Rhos was a big, hatchet-faced man of fifty or thereabout, broadly built and tall, the weathered skin of his face beginning to loosen over the bluntly prominent bones, his ox-blood-colored hair and mustache just threaded with gray.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Behind the counter, a nice-looking blond guy and a hatchet-faced woman who seemed too old to be steaming milk for a living talked about television while they cleaned the wood-grained laminate and straightened stacks of prepackaged biscotti.
Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010
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In the bright light of a waxing moon, the hatchet-faced woman stood outside the prison house, her head inclined to one side, and studied Ben and me.
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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To most of the general public he is the archetypal hatchet-faced 'nasty' Tory.
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A hatchet-faced cadet named Vanderlick thrust his head through a doorway.
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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