What is "downturned"

Usage examples of "downturned".

Bauchelain had triggered unease in the captain, then this manhis broad, round face, his eyes buried in puffed flesh and wide full-lipped mouth set slightly downturned at the corners, a face both childlike and ineffably monstroussent ripples of fear through Gruntle.

Features on the left were fixed in a downturned grimace, as if in permanent dismay.

He exhaled, his eyes suddenly very dark as he studied her downturned face.

He looked around the suddenly downturned faces, agitation spraying through the ranks at the kind of outrageous remark he might be intending to make about them to this vision of beauty.

The one at the top was of Emmett Kelly, with his white-painted downturned mouth, his battered hat and enormous flopping shoes, running toward the circus tent with a bucket of water.

Major Humphreys had the thoughtful eyes and downturned mouth of a schoolteacher, but right now his dominant expression was the same as that of the soldier on guard—tension masking dread.

Even the acutely disciplined safeties began to let their masks of neutrality slip, betraying their inclinations and allegiances with a slightly downturned lip here, an arched eyebrow or furrowed brow there.

We know that whitehats -- so we have named the slow, flat, three-cornered scions that walk on their downturned tips -- are not edible, yet two of Moonrise's children have died in the last week trying to eat one.