pie-faced

comparative more pie-faced · superlative most pie-faced

1. Having a round, unblemished face.

   He glanced across her at the jawless, pie-faced woman soon to be her mother-in-law, whose owlish eyes were fixed askance upon their hands.

   2001, Roger Ladd Memott, The Gypsy Lover

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   She is already up to feeling sorry for the pie-faced wife and children in the oak frames on his filing cabinet, the small cluster of people who have Jon Folan in every one of their days.

   1997, Carol Anshaw, Seven Moves

   Jolene was a pie-faced, heavy girl and I always thought she looked the type to have gone and found trouble just to show you didn't have to be a cheerleader to be fast.

   1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A Novel

   Synonyms: moon-faced