boot-faced

British

adjective

informal wearing a stern, disapproving expression

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Sweetshops peppered his boyhood and boyhood writing: lemon sherbets, bootlaces, gobstoppers and toffees; hard-boiled sweets served by boot-faced proprietors.

From The Guardian

A boot-faced extra from the crime scene turns out, on closer inspection, to be Pauline Quirke.

From The Guardian

I'm not laughing much at his jokes and must be looking rather boot-faced, which begins to make him irritated.

From The Guardian

"Both the Top Gear tendency, which bangs on about obnoxious feminists, and the PC lobby which wants the commission to be a strident, boot-faced, politically correct thought police are now just hanging on at the fringes of public life," he said.

From BBC

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