rubber-faced

[ ruhb-er-feyst ]

adjective

1. having a face with unusually mobile features:

   a rubber-faced comedian.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rubber-faced¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

It starred the rubber-faced Sedaris as Jerri Blank, a 46-year-old high school freshman and semi-reformed drug addict who returns to her hometown after decades on the lam and tries to pick up where she left off as an adolescent.

From Los Angeles Times

Taking inspiration not from scary movies but Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced turn in “The Mask,” per the Australian actor, her Deadite Mommie Dearest becomes a terrifying vessel for chaos and destruction of the bodily and emotional kind, hilariously horrific as she levitates, expectorates, crab walks, crawls up the walls, menaces the neighbors and taunts her own children with quotable lines like, “Mommy’s with the maggots now.”

From Los Angeles Times

The rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl.

From Seattle Times

Larry Storch, 99, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his “F Troop” role as zany Cpl.

From Seattle Times

Meredith Blake: When this movie was announced back in January, the prospect of Nicole Kidman — an excellent actress who can be quite funny but not one exactly known for her kinetic physical comedy or rubber-faced expressions — playing the beloved Lucille Ball got a lot of people riled up.

From Los Angeles Times