snaggletoothed

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1. Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth.

   One part of me wanted that voyage never to end. But end it did. Kentish Queen slid into Dover's snaggletoothed twin sister over the mucky water, Ostend, the Lady of Dubious Virtue.

   2004, David Mitchell, “Letters From Zedelghem”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 46

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   “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”

   2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, quoting Annie Bourneuf, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025