Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
face .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The front façade had an eerie, facelike quality, with a double entry serving as a gaping mouth.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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The front façade had an eerie, facelike quality, with a double entry serving as a gaping mouth.
Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011
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Infants can detect, and prefer to look at, a face or something facelike—even three points forming a V—rather than other visual scenes.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Infants can detect, and prefer to look at, a face or something facelike—even three points forming a V—rather than other visual scenes.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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It was Wendy who told me she saw Jimmy coming out of one of the pharmacies with a really pissed-off expression on his facelike he had been trying to refill his prescription and had been turned down.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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It was Wendy who told me she saw Jimmy coming out of one of the pharmacies with a really pissed-off expression on his facelike he had been trying to refill his prescription and had been turned down.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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It was Wendy who told me she saw Jimmy coming out of one of the pharmacies with a really pissed-off expression on his facelike he had been trying to refill his prescription and had been turned down.
Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008
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Unidentified facelike object peeks out from duck X-ray at wild bird rescue center
Archive 2006-05-01 Mac 2006
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He had read somewhere that babies are instinctively drawn to faces, that they will fixate even on drawings or abstract, facelike shapes, and round objects with markings that might resemble eye-mouth-nose.
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He had read somewhere that babies are instinctively drawn to faces, that they will fixate even on drawings or abstract, facelike shapes, and round objects with markings that might resemble eye-mouth-nose.
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