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Meaning of hook-nosed | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Having a hooked or curved nose.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“She is a large, oleaginous, black-haired, hook-nosed woman, who invariably wears ear-rings, and perfumes a room with the odor of fried fish.”
“The mother, a hard, hook-nosed creature, was doing up a bundle of overalls she had but finished at the sewing-machine.”
“As the conversation got around to what he thought of the United States, he said that it was “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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