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lockjawed

lockjawed adjective: rigidly humourless.

Adjective

lockjawed (comparative more lockjawed, superlative most lockjawed)

  1. (informal) Rigidly humourless.
    • A work that never quite succeeds in matching its thoughtful head to its sentimental heart, “Crazy Mary” charts a culture clash between a lockjawed, button-down matron and her distant cousin, a longtime sanitarium resident who is, to put it politely, bonkers.2007 June 4, Ben Brantley, “Bound by Blood, but Separated by a Breach in Sanity”, in New York Times

Forms of lockjawed

comparativemore lockjawed
superlativemost lockjawed

Questions about lockjawed

What does lockjawed mean?
Lockjawed means rigidly humourless.
What part of speech is lockjawed?
Lockjawed is an adjective.

Words near lockjawed in the dictionary

  1. lockins
  2. Lockist
  3. Lockists
  4. Lockitt
  5. lockjaw
  6. lockjawed
  7. lockjaws
  8. lockkeeper
  9. lockkeepers
  10. Locklear
  11. Locklears

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