Pucker Up: Phrase Bank for Describing a Character’s Mouth/Lips

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Dimple in chin

Cut of his jaw (“classic Nansur cut of his jaw”)

Lantern-jawed (long, thin jaw and prominent chin)

Long neck

“Chin too broad. And it had a cleft in it that looked like a scar.”

Narrow chin

“It is a terrible thing you see a man trying to jut out a chin he does not, in fact, have.”

“Slightly receding chin”

Pointed jaw

Strong chin

chin vanishing nto beardbeard

“Chins jiggled when she laughed”

Her chin is a little weak and it appears she is aware of this for the tilt of her head seems a conscious combat against it (Angela Slatter)





_-mouthed (small-mouthed)

“mouth artfully rouged

“Mouth permanently downturned”

Dimples (“She had a pretty smile, with just the hint of a dimple”



Chapped (lips/face)

Full-lipped (pretty woman)

thin-lipped

Cracked/broken lips

Fat red lips

Colorless lips

“Her lips hung like raw meat draped over her sharp predator’s teeth”

Protuberant lips