boot-faced

adjective

1. informal.
   wearing a stern, disapproving expression

Example Sentences

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

Said London's Tory Daily Telegraph: "The younger generation regards the Socialists either as strangers or as a collection of austere, button-booted, boot-faced, half-fossilized aunts, embittered by grim repressions and memories of something nasty seen down in the coal mine."

From Time Magazine Archive