Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a sad or sorrowful face.
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- adjective Having a
sad facial expression
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a face with a sad expression
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Examples
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Septuagenarians forced to sell their constantly dwindling ration quotas, sad-faced grandmas who eat thanks to the candy and peanuts they themselves sell outside schools.
Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Elderly Sell Bits and Pieces on the Street to Survive Yoani Sanchez 2011
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Septuagenarians forced to sell their constantly dwindling ration quotas, sad-faced grandmas who eat thanks to the candy and peanuts they themselves sell outside schools.
Yoani Sanchez: Cuba's Elderly Sell Bits and Pieces on the Street to Survive Yoani Sanchez 2011
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Two atomic weapons have been used in wartime, and Kenshi Hirata, a diminutive, sad-faced accountant, experienced both of them.
Greg Mitchell: Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki Greg Mitchell 2011
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The museum's chronological gloss follows Condo's career in three modes: from abstractions each a muck of doodled parts and faces to the sad-faced portraits of drones from corporate America to the aforementioned crazy-faced gallery.
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Two atomic weapons have been used in wartime, and Kenshi Hirata, a diminutive, sad-faced accountant, experienced both of them.
Greg Mitchell: Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki Greg Mitchell 2011
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Two atomic weapons have been used in wartime, and Kenshi Hirata, a diminutive, sad-faced accountant, experienced both of them.
Greg Mitchell: Twice Cursed: The Man who Survived the A-Bomb in Hiroshima -- and in Nagasaki Greg Mitchell 2011
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It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.
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The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat.
CHAPTER X 2010
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It's all very well to imagine newly single, sad-faced Adele blubbing alone to ballads, but single life is just as much a riot of undignified lonely nights on dancefloors.
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But regardless, in my mind's eye, a sold-out game involves sad-faced ticket agents hanging a "SOLD OUT!" sign over their windows, while crowds of fans waiting in line throw down their fedoras in anger and instead retire to the neighborhood tobacconist's shop with their transistor radios.
Redskins-Colts another FedEx Field sellout Dan Steinberg 2010
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