smooth-faced
Americanadjective
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beardless; smooth-shaven.
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having a smooth or polished surface, as a stone.
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deceitfully ingratiating.
Etymology
Origin of smooth-faced
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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WASHINGTON—A smooth-faced 41-year-old Donald Trump settled in before a live studio audience assembled for The Oprah Winfrey Show and held forth on how America should be getting a cut of Kuwaiti oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
At its climax our heroes must escape from certain death deep underground and then, without ropes or handholds, somehow scale the 80 feet of a smooth-faced well that is rapidly filling with water.
From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019
The smooth-faced Mr. Wilmore seemed younger Thursday night than the graying, hoarse Mr. Stewart, but he is actually a year older.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
Christopher Columbus’ contemporaries viewed facial hair as primitive and uncivilized until the scraggly sailors caught sight of the smooth-faced denizens of the “New World,” and what do you know?
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2016
Mandrag was clean-shaven and smooth-faced, with hands stained a half hundred different colors and seemed to be made all of knuckle and bone.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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