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
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
A conspicuous space formed around the smooth-faced 26-year-old woman and her baby, also a survivor, as she sat on a bench.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2014
Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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