moon-faced

adj

moon-faced

adj
1

Having a round or moon-shaped face.

  • “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes! But there’s worse than that.”1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 127:
  • The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer[.]1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:
1 more example
  • "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:
Synonyms
pie-faced

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