squarejawed

See also: square-jawed

English

Adjective

squarejawed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of square-jawed.
   • 1952 August 31, Louise Rucks, “Dogs”, in Sunday Magazine (The Daily Oklahoman), Oklahoma City, Okla., page 5, column 1:

     The other breeder, obviously an old timer, weatherbeaten and squarejawed says, “Nope, Melvin. That’s a lot of dog. Typey. As well put down as any dog I’ve seen in years and for that matter, well let down. […]”

   • 1992, Xander Mellish, “Heart-Hooked”, in Shelley Anderson, Marjorie K. Jacobs, Kathe Stolz, editors, Side Show 1992-1993: An Annual of Contemporary Fiction, El Cerrito, Calif.: Somersault Press, →ISBN, page 333:

     I never ended up meeting the boyfriend, who was working on a detective series out in L.A., but I’m sure he looked just like Berty, all thin and squarejawed and energetic.

   • 1995, Jo C. Searles, “From Robot to Roarer”, in Nancy Owen Nelson, editor, Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life, Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 77:

     Eventually, one of those painful pauses, clear evidence that we were all talked out, when one squarejawed, nondescript woman from town commented softly, “But no one said anything about women’s spirituality.”