Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a long coarse face; ugly.

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Examples

  • There were attempts at matchmaking, but Polly was somewhat horse-faced and definitely bossy; Washington was not about to marry another version of his mother.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There were attempts at matchmaking, but Polly was somewhat horse-faced and definitely bossy; Washington was not about to marry another version of his mother.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There were attempts at matchmaking, but Polly was somewhat horse-faced and definitely bossy; Washington was not about to marry another version of his mother.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • There were attempts at matchmaking, but Polly was somewhat horse-faced and definitely bossy; Washington was not about to marry another version of his mother.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • She gives us half-canucks a bad name, the horse-faced deep fried cheese eating surrender monkey supporter.

    Marina Pepper One Last Time Newmania 2008

  • He was a large, dark, horse-faced man who always looked uncomfortable -- too many clothes, too hot, needed a shave, hair matted and tangled.

    Beard 2010

  • The lower berth in the next cabin was turned down and looked so inviting that I dragged off my duds any old how and crawled in gratefully, reflecting that the Orient Express was an Al train, and Kralta, the teasing horse-faced bag-gage with her splendid assets, was just the freight for it ... and Vienna lay ahead.

    Watershed 2010

  • Carville was speaking to the right-wing talking point of a "deeply flawed" candidate with such high unfavorables, advanced by his dour and horse-faced spouse and picked up by the other right-wingers on the panel.

    Hillary Supporter James Carville: National Polls Are "Meaningless" 2009

  • For years we've been informed that titless horse-faced junkies are "sexy".

    Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009

  • She was so homely that Henry James called her “horse-faced.”

    2007 January 01 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

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