baby face

noun

plural baby faces

: a usually rounded face that gives the impression of extreme youth and innocence

professional wrestling : a wrestler who performs the role of the sympathetic protagonist in a staged wrestling match

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What our gifter says: There’s truly nothing cuter than a bunch of baby faces all over socks. —

Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2024 When Wilson’s lanky frame and baby face graced the big screen, the room erupted. —

Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024 Standing way back in the pines on the only hole Augusta National lengthened for this Masters stood a towering man with a baby face and a naive disposition. —

Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024 Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol? —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024 According to Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster for Light Years, much of our gawking is driven by a primal impulse to search nepo baby faces for recognizable genetic similarities and contrasts with their famous parents, and to praise or shame them accordingly. —

Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024 And much of the film’s success lies in the vast spectrum of emotions playing across lead actor Mia McKenna-Bruce’s baby face. —

Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024 And families that had hoped for a baby face excruciating heartache when the pregnancy goes wrong and doctors are barred from helping. —

Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024 The teddy-bear effect: does having a baby face benefit black chief executive officers? —

Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019