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Upturned

adjective
1.
Having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom.  Synonyms: overturned, upset.  "The upset pitcher of milk" , "Sat on an upturned bucket"
2.
(used of noses) turned up at the end.  Synonyms: retrousse, tip-tilted.  "A small upturned nose"






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"Upturned" Quotes from Famous Books



... smiled down into her upturned, anxious face. His only reply was a reassuring pressure of her hand. But she comprehended, and ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... magical by the alchemy of night, surrounded them. They came to a spot where a circular wall of foliage, rising behind stone benches, hemmed in a fountain, above which a marble antique warrior was lifting in his arms a marble girl, who struggled against that seizure with a convulsive energy, while her upturned face wore a look of happiness. Lawrence Teck ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman

... passionate face upturned to hers, and then her head drooped. And so they remained long; his dark head resting in her arms; her fair ...
— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester

... with two diagonal bands of white (top, almost double width) and black starting from the upper hoist side; the national emblem in red is superimposed at the center; the emblem includes a swallow-tailed flag on top of a winged column within an upturned crescent above a scroll and flanked ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... said Tommy, bounding suddenly from the window and squatting down before Mrs. Windsor, with his elbows on his blue serge knees, his firm white chin resting on his upturned palms, and his brown eyes fixed steadily upon her carefully arranged face, which always puzzled him very much; it was so unlike his mother's. "What are their names? Are ...
— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens


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