moon-faced
adj1
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