ferret-faced

comparative more ferret-faced · superlative most ferret-faced

1. Of a person, having a sharp, pointed face reminiscent of a ferret.

   It was the ferret-faced detective from the Sir Futzen Bunion murder mystery[.]

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 102

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   Among the men who used the most insulting language to the workmen of the factory was a pale, ferret-faced looking little man , whose condition was evidently different from that of the troop by which he was surrounded.

   1845, Eugène Sue, translated by D.M. Aird, The Wandering Jew: A Tale of the Jesuits, London: Bruce and Wyld, page 191