jaw-jutting
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.58 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
adj
Example Sentences
- "1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147, What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle."
- "Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce."
- "The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit."
- "Harold was different: stylishly clad in black and often in sunglasses, he was a man’s man, a proper bloke, a whiskey-drinking, women-loving, sweary, jaw-jutting fella, brought up on the hard, war-bittne streets of Hackney […]"