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having a blunt nose

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Usage examples (27)
  • The machine tried in vain to find the trunk of the short-nosed man.
  • It was a dangerous looking revolver, of the short-nosed, bulldog pattern.
  • She was very plainly dressed and as formal as only a child can be, but the blue eyes in her short-nosed solemn face were secretly merry under their heavy lids.
  • The steppe mammoth and the European jaguar roamed southern Europe, while the Americas were covered in direwolves and giant sloths and 10-foot tall short-nosed bears.
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