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What does slack-jawed mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a person) With the mouth in an open position and the jaw hanging loosely, especially as indicating bewilderment or astonishment.
  2. (idiomatic, of a person) Unsophisticated or unthinking; dimwitted in appearance.
  3. (idiomatic, dated, of a person) Overly talkative; indiscreet.
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I came away feeling a combination of slack-jawed dumbfoundedness and downright anger.
Other companies stood, slack-jawed, in admiration and played what seemed to be a never-ending game of catch-up.
Defusing-a-Bomb Novel Jet Guysauce stared slack-jawed at the rat's nest of bomb cables.
The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.
The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
Ninety percent of them are nattering slack-jawed bandersnatches, so why would we want more of them?

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