1. a politician from the North who supports Southern interests, especially regarding slavery (historical, U.S. politics)
Usage: archaic; historical; derogatory
2. a person with a soft, pale, or expressionless face
Usage: informal; derogatory

Examples

• The senator was criticized as a doughface for voting with Southern delegates on the slavery question.
• Nineteenth-century Northern politicians who sided with the South were often called doughfaces by their opponents.
• The term 'doughface' emerged during the antebellum period to describe political compromise on slavery.
• His doughface expression revealed little emotion during the heated debate.
• The doughface politician faced backlash from his own party for his controversial stance.