downface
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A profile characterized by a downward sloping muzzle.
Example Sentences
- "He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views."
- "Didn't I tell you? As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living."
- "Mr Kenmis, this lady at a very great risk to herself has had the courage to downface me in my office and show me that an injustice has been done."
- "The fact is that Gladstone exaggerated or minimised the role of fenianism depending on what line of opposing argument he was endeavouring to downface at any particular time."
- "Shucks, I didn't want fer them furriners to downface me and, sartin sure, didn't want my kinspeople to be shamed afore them."
- "For a student to downface and humiliate the Premier in a televised debate, to speak to him as a rather high-handed superior might a junior, as Wuerkaixi did to Li Peng on May 19, was very brave, but also unwise and flatly contradictory to Chinese culture."
Etymology
From down + face.
Usage
Inflected Forms
downfaces (present, singular)
downfacing (participle, present)
downfaced (participle, past)
downfaced (past)
downfaces (plural)
more downface (comparative)
most downface (superlative)