whey-faced

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for whey-faced
Adjective
  • So the image of an infant howler monkey clinging to the back of a white-faced capuchin confused Zoë Goldsborough, a behavioral ecologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany.
    Elizabeth Landau, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • That's what scientists think after watching a bunch of male white-faced capuchin monkeys walking around with baby howler monkeys clinging to their backs.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms would attack the keys with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa.
    Richard Corliss, Time, 28 Oct. 2022
  • With two employees and a vault filled with gold nuggets and untanned animal pelts, the bank would soon become an essential part of the state’s economic engine; a year later construction on the Alaska Railroad completed and people turned to First National for banking security.
    Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022
Adjective
  • Starmer initially stood up for his deputy, but his support grew more anemic day by day.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Philly performance could have been the final Wu-Tang Clan concert ever had ticket sales been anemic; now the show will be the end of the group’s first leg of an extended farewell run that will push into 2026.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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