Definitions
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- adjective having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition
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Examples
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A sweet-faced woman stood at our door with a red bucket in her gloved hands.
Charlie Carillo: Silent Night, Deductible Night Charlie Carillo 2011
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The same two bucks I put in the sweet-faced woman's bucket.
Charlie Carillo: Silent Night, Deductible Night Charlie Carillo 2011
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Bunster knew that he had more to fear from the good-natured, even sweet-faced, Malaita boy than from the entire population of Lord Howe; and it gave added zest to the programme of torment he was carrying out.
MAUKI 2010
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Theo arrived a few years later and soon he was a sweet-faced kid who asked too many questions, but that just made him more like his mother, and more loved.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Theirs was a wide-eyed, sweet-faced puppy, which they told me was a beloved Havanese.
Jill Lynne: Adventures In Dog Adoption Jill Lynne 2011
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In the early 1970s, it was the turn of sweet-faced David Cassidy, the star of TV's "The Partridge Family," to earn the devotion of millions of girls world-wide — among them the writer Allison Pearson.
Truly, Madly, Remotely Clare McHugh 2011
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In the end, the Fox sweet-faced Dallas McMurray, seemingly resurrected, reappears triumphant—even if his eyes are blinded behind glasses marked with X's.
Mark Morris And His Joy of Text Robert Greskovic 2011
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"I think it's pretty childish, to be honest," said the sweet-faced Ellie, after a group of men stood round her, sniggering about anal probes.
TV review: Undercover Boss; True Stories – Voices From the Killing Field 2011
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Theo arrived a few years later and soon he was a sweet-faced kid who asked too many questions, but that just made him more like his mother, and more loved.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Theirs was a wide-eyed, sweet-faced puppy, which they told me was a beloved Havanese.
Jill Lynne: Adventures In Dog Adoption Jill Lynne 2011
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