Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pliable; easily molded; truckling; pusillanimous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Easily molded; pliable.

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Examples

  • Though the dough-faced actor looks nothing like him, DePodesta said Hill is "terrific" at his craft.

    The Man Not Named in 'Moneyball' Brian Costa 2011

  • A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.

    Birthday Boy 2009

  • A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls, maybe; but an idiot, no.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • David Cameron was once a 40 year old simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler who looked like he could possibly beat Gordon Brown in a general election.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • David Cameron was once a 40 year old simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler who looked like he could possibly beat Gordon Brown in a general election.

    Birthday Boy 2009

  • A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddling idiot with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • A simpering, say-anything, dough-faced, preposterous waddler with a feeble, insincere voice and an irritating tendency to squat near the top of opinion polls, maybe; but an idiot, no.

    Birthday Boy 2009

  • Manford and Jones could be Chiles and Bleakley's doppelgangers – inoffensively dough-faced Everyman on the left, attractive olive-skinned brunette with piano keyboard smile on the right.

    The One Show: New dressing, same tasty morsels 2010

  • Why, for that matter, had I let myself be lured into that Washington hotel by the designing dwarf Mandeville, and gone like a lustful lamb to the slaughter with Spring's diabolical daughter, or slavered after that dough-faced heifer in Calcutta?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Glenn Beck, the dough-faced pompous puppet of corporate America, and host of his own Fox News cable show now runs a daily banner beneath his beaming red face proclaiming, "Road to Socialism."

    Glenn Beck's Show Mocks Americans as "Moochers" 2009

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