rubber-faced

American  

[ruhb-er-feyst] / ˈrʌb ərˌfeɪst /

adjective

1. having a face with unusually mobile features.

   a rubber-faced comedian.

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Etymology

Origin of rubber-faced

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

It’s hard to imagine any other host this season, for instance, doing such rubber-faced manic justice to a very gross and very funny “Flaming Hot Preparation H” commercial parody.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025

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 • Dec. 5, 2022

I felt like Mr Bean, the rubber-faced TV character played by Rowan Atkinson, when I first visited the Awa people over a decade ago.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2021

So far, Jim Carrey’s Biden not an impression of Joe Biden, it’s a reminder that Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging is funniest when the sole point of the joke is “Jim Carrey’s rubber-faced mugging.”

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2020

Within, soft rubber-faced cushions had interlocked; the body would fasten to the headpiece in the same way.

From The Finding of Haldgren by Diffin, Charles Willard