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jaw-jutting

adj

Definitions

  1. Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward

  2. determined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant

    • Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce.
    • The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA