smile
verb (used without object)
to assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth.
smileless
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a word derived from
smile.
Example Sentences
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"While there are some spectacular fight sequences with a large - but totally bloodless - death toll, there is a distinct lack of humour in this version, making it both songless and smileless," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2020
I mean, I could see that’s where she’d come from, that “Last Resort” girl with her dead eyes and her pale face and her smileless lips.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall—all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Did zometimes come vull six veet high, or higher, In white, he zaid, wi' eyes lik' coals o' vier; An' zometimes, wi' a feäce so peäle as milk, A smileless leädy, all a-deck'd in silk.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William
Her lips and eyes, as grave and smileless as his own, puzzled him.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
