Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a face.

Etymologies

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face +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The front façade had an eerie, facelike quality, with a double entry serving as a gaping mouth.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • The front façade had an eerie, facelike quality, with a double entry serving as a gaping mouth.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Unidentified facelike object peeks out from duck X-ray at wild bird rescue center

    Archive 2006-05-01 Mac 2006

  • 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.

    You Remind Me of Me « Gerry Canavan 2005

  • 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.

    May « 2005 « Gerry Canavan 2005

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