What is "lipless"

Usage examples of "lipless".

No feature was distinguishable, and her ugliness was made more conspicuous and dreadful by two fine eyes full of fire, and by a lipless mouth which she kept parted, as if to disclose two rows of teeth of dazzling whiteness.

Possibly it was young Augustus Gom, a dyspeptic, and who had married a wife with a Roman nose, fierce blue eyes, and a mouth that was lipless.

He had a square, jowly face, a lumpy nose, and a straight, nearly lipless mouth.

Beneath he glimpsed lidless eyes and the shine of human teeth, bared and lipless.

They had lidless slit-pupiled eyes, gaping nostril pits, outsize lipless jaws rimmed with yellow vomerine fangs.

From a white blur, with a slitted smile, the face became a withery, lipless visage spread in a fangish leer.

Instantly Nom Anor mastered himself again, wiping his lipless mouth with the back of his wrist.

The eyes were covered with a caul of lacelike skin, the nose was missing and the mouth was a lipless circle of dribbling flesh.

Bruz Ott entered and leaned over her, his almost lipless mouth bared in a grin that revealed yellowed, rotting teeth, He would have put his hands on her, but Linda drew back, her own hands gripped into claws.

Cameron couldn't tell who it was because the flesh was bubbling off the bones beneath the right side of the man's face and down across his mouth, leaving his tongue flopping about in a lipless, cheekless maw, the white bones of his skull above the jawbone entirely exposed.

He was dark, wore tinted aviator glasses and a beige Italian-cut suit, and had a fox face dominated by a wide, lipless wound of a mouth.

The army escort captain, a thin, sallow man with a face like a Moor's and a lipless mouth, consulted with two customs officers.

His expression was entirely neutral, his lipless mouth open to reveal a hard dental ridge mostly covered by pale gums.

Leathery, wizened, a bulky hearing aid in his ear, his thin lipless lower jaw thrust out over a corded, wattled neck, he looked a bit like an angry tortoise.

His features were blunter than those of the maned men, his mouth so wide and lipless in appearance that it might have been merely a slit cut in the puffed skin.