half-faced

adjective

Showing only part of the face; wretched-looking.

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Meanings

adjectivehalf-faced (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteShowing only part of the face; wretched-looking.

    But out vpon this halfe-fac'd Fellowship.

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]
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APA

half-faced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-faced

MLA

“half-faced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-faced. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “half-faced,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/half-faced.

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