What does baby-faced mean?
Baby-faced means Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful..
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/ˈbeɪbiˌfeɪst/ · adjective
Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful..
Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.
[David] Caruso’s at his best in control of things as an island of calm fury. Here, looking like a babier-faced Alan Ladd, he’s hardly in charge even of his own destiny as an ex-petty thief who, forced by a cousin to do one more run, is caught, jailed, loses his wife in a car crash, and suffers the final indignity of having to turn police informer to secure permanent freedom.
“You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.”
Use baby-faced when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Baby-faced means Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful..
Common synonyms include fresh-faced, juvenile, youngsome, faced.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.
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