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  • adjective Jowly.

Etymologies

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jowl +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was a patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black-browed boss of a municipal machine.

    Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

  • Takes the small, wiry fellows when it comes to gittin 'right down an' hangin 'on like a lean-jowled dog to a bone.

    GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

  • Ciarán Hinds is convincing – jovial but heavy jowled – as the useless but self-styled beguiling husband.

    Reasons to Be Pretty; Juno and the Paycock; The Lion in Winter – review 2011

  • A heavily jowled woman puffed and coughed in the corner.

    Unwritten Alison Wells 2012

  • He was a big, beefy, red-faced personage, full-jowled and double-chinned, sweating at his desk in his shirt-sleeves.

    Local Color 2010

  • He sat there, on the floor, as the barrage of rain let up, and recognized how deaf he truly was: the constant pang of hail like golf balls against the windows, the jowled bark of a basset hound, tied to an oak.

    Lifting Peter Kispert 2011

  • Edna found the manager of the Loops a full-fleshed, heavy-jowled man, bushy of eyebrow and generally belligerent of aspect, with an absent-minded scowl on his face and a black cigar stuck in the midst thereof.

    Amateur Night 2010

  • This gentleman, who collected fine editions and was an especial patron of literature, paid blackmail to a heavy-jowled, black-browed boss of a municipal machine.

    What Life Means to Me 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

  • We would be called desperadoes if we weren't so boring, so utterly banal in our soft-jawed, full-jowled selfishness.

    After the Crash, a Crashing Bore Peggy Nooonan 2010

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