dough-faced: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- Having a soft, pallid, or flabby facial appearance, as if the face were made of dough.
- Appearing weak, spiritless, or lacking in firmness or character; timid or ineffectual in demeanor.
Examples
BetaAfter being ill for weeks, his face looked dough-faced and pale, lacking any color or firmness.
Después de estar enfermo durante semanas, su rostro parecía de masa y pálido, sin ningún color ni firmeza.
The actor wore heavy makeup that made him appear dough-faced, as if his features were soft and indistinct.
El actor llevaba maquillaje pesado que lo hacía parecer con rostro blando, como si sus rasgos fueran suaves e indistintos.
Her dough-faced expression revealed exhaustion and the toll of sleepless nights.
Su expresión de rostro blando revelaba agotamiento y el efecto de noches sin dormir.
Doctors noted the patient’s dough-faced appearance as a symptom of his underlying condition.
Los médicos observaron la apariencia de rostro blando del paciente como un síntoma de su condición subyacente.
Examples:
- EN: He stands, stoop-shouldered, blinking in the light, hollow-chested like a dough-faced fall guy who's made a career of taking dives but has decided to get his manhood out of hockand take a shot at the title.ES: Él se mantiene, hombros-levantados, brillando en la luz... como un cofre-vacío un chico descarado... que ha hecho una carrera de zambullidas pero ha decidido... dejar su masculinidad fuera y darle un tiro en el título.
- EN: He's just dough-faced and depressed.ES: - Tiene cara de cobarde y deprimido.
- EN: Wake up, you dough-faced motherfucker.HI: उठो ऐ ग़रीब बेनवा.
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