hatchet-faced

adjective

Having a narrow face with sharp, angular features.

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Meanings

adjectivehatchet-faced (comparative more hatchet-faced, superlative most hatchet-faced)

comparative more hatchet-faced · superlative most hatchet-faced

  1. Having a narrow face with sharp, angular features.

    There's three blokes who look like the Nazgul in pinstripes, and a skinny hatchet-faced bird who keeps saying “Well?” at me every time she asks me a question and I don't answer her inside half a second.

    2012, Tom Holt, You Don't Have to Be Evil to Work Here, But it Helps, page 133
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APA

hatchet-faced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchet-faced

MLA

“hatchet-faced.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchet-faced. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hatchet-faced,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatchet-faced.

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