sad-faced

[sad-feyst]

adjective

1. having a face characterized by or expressing sorrow.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sad-faced¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

The sad-faced pony and gray skies gave it away.

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Snaking all the way ’round the side of the palace and then back again was a long line of sad-faced, shabbily dressed people.

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The spy later that night used a sad-faced emoji when he reported back to the executive that Monroe took an Uber to his hotel instead of driving.

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Why would sad-faced dancers terrorize a little girl in a nightmarish dream ballet?

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One afternoon, before I accompanied Farmer on his last rounds of the day, he sat across from a sad-faced young man named Ti Ofa, who was approaching the final stages of AIDS.

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