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adjective

Lean-faced adj.

Having a thin face.

(Typog.) Slender or narrow; said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lean-faced" Quotes from Famous Books

... a secret," the marquis whispered, "I look to mate with one beside whom the Queen—not to speak treason—is but a lean-faced, yellow piece of affectation. I aim higher than royalty, heart's dearest,—aspiring to one beside whom empresses ...

— The Line of Love - Dizain des Mariages • James Branch Cabell

... years of age, quite dark, and substantially built. He says that he has been treated very badly, and that Duke Bond was the name of the "tyrant" who held him. He pictured his master as "a lean-faced man—not stout—of thirty-eight or thirty-nine years of age, a member of the Episcopal Church." "He had a wife and two children; his last wife was right pleasant—he was a farmer, and was rich, had sold slaves, and was severe when ...

— The Underground Railroad • William Still

... the ferocity of mad dogs, and he knocked them spinning, one after another. A whistle blew shrilly, other uniforms came running, more whistles piped, and almost before he realized it he found himself in the centre of a pack of lean-faced brown men who were struggling to pull him down and striking at him with their clubs. With a sudden wild thrill he realized that this was no ordinary street fight; this was deadly; he must beat off these fellows or be killed. ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach