moon-faced

comparative more moon-faced · superlative most moon-faced · alternative moonfaced

1. Having a round or moon-shaped face.

   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

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   “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

   "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