Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of square-jawed.
I never ended up meeting the boyfriend, who was working on a detective series out in L.A., but I’m sure he looked just like Berty, all thin and squarejawed and energetic.
1992, Xander Mellish, “Heart-Hooked”, in Shelley Anderson, Marjorie K. Jacobs, Kathe Stolz, editors, Side Show 1992-1993: An Annual of Contemporary Fiction, El Cerrito, Calif.: Somersault Press, →ISBN, page 3332 more examples
The other breeder, obviously an old timer, weatherbeaten and squarejawed says, “Nope, Melvin. That’s a lot of dog. Typey. As well put down as any dog I’ve seen in years and for that matter, well let down.[…]”
1952 August 31, Louise Rucks, “Dogs”, in Sunday Magazine (The Daily Oklahoman), Oklahoma City, Okla., page 5, column 1Eventually, one of those painful pauses, clear evidence that we were all talked out, when one squarejawed, nondescript woman from town commented softly, “But no one said anything about women’s spirituality.”
1995, Jo C. Searles, “From Robot to Roarer”, in Nancy Owen Nelson, editor, Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life, Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 77
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