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slack-jawed
[ slak-jawd ]
adjective
- having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
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Origin of slack-jawed1
Example Sentences
He confidently illustrates what he’s deduced by drawing a grid on a whiteboard and yammering as his suspects and colleagues watch, slack-jawed.
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.
Hopefully there is a point to that interaction other than shock value and Rick reacting in slack-jawed silence.
Pattinson has incredible physical control over both 17’s slack-jawed, knock-kneed cartoon and his identical opposite.
“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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