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slack-jawed

[ slak-jawd ]

adjective

  1. having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of slack-jawed1

slack jaw + -ed 3
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He confidently illustrates what he’s deduced by drawing a grid on a whiteboard and yammering as his suspects and colleagues watch, slack-jawed.

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Children whose only crimes lay in looking and acting slightly different from their nondisabled peers were sentenced to life in a filthy, reeking room where they huddled naked on the floor in their own feces or rocked and howled in terror or sat slack-jawed and vacant-eyed day after day while a single staff member tried to attend to the basic needs of 50.

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Hopefully there is a point to that interaction other than shock value and Rick reacting in slack-jawed silence.

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Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.

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“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too,” Trump announced to Netanyahu’s slack-jawed amazement.

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