whey-faced

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whey-faced
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Put more simply, since the calendar turned to May, Verdugo has appeared in 17 games with just 13 hits and three doubles, for a .200 batting average and an anemic .500 OPS.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • And on the front line in Ukraine, Russia’s offensive has picked up this month after anemic gains earlier this year.
    Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 20 May 2025
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“Whey-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whey-faced. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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