Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a sad countenance.
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- adjective Having a sad
facial expression
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Examples
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The thin, sad-eyed girl later let out a thrilled laugh as she danced with one of the green-uniformed soldiers.
Maria Jose Martinez Gets Treatment For Leukemia In Nicaraguan Hospital AP 2011
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The thin, sad-eyed girl later let out a thrilled laugh as she danced with one of the green-uniformed soldiers.
Maria Jose Martinez Gets Treatment For Leukemia In Nicaraguan Hospital AP 2011
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In the flush of his success, the only thought he spared for the unlucky Stu Trask was a reflection on the incongruity of the image of the dour and homely Trask—sad-eyed, stooped, balding, and emaciated but for a small paunch—and his fateful weakness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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I am afraid that I will be trapped here, tethered to my fear, like a sad-eyed gorilla in a cage that should never hold it, until my life winks out.
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In a heavily Russian subsection of West Hollywood, the three of us shared a sunburst-colored apartment building with a struggling actor, a surf-loving drummer, and a sad-eyed boy who had grown up in the Children of God cult and now worked at The Whisky on Sunset Boulevard.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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In the flush of his success, the only thought he spared for the unlucky Stu Trask was a reflection on the incongruity of the image of the dour and homely Trask—sad-eyed, stooped, balding, and emaciated but for a small paunch—and his fateful weakness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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In the flush of his success, the only thought he spared for the unlucky Stu Trask was a reflection on the incongruity of the image of the dour and homely Trask—sad-eyed, stooped, balding, and emaciated but for a small paunch—and his fateful weakness.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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For an instant he was back in his native France, and a wistful, sad-eyed face came as a mist between him and the woman before him.
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This failed, sad-eyed goddess becomes our spirit guide to Julien's vision of China.
Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe Stuart Jeffries 2010
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In a heavily Russian subsection of West Hollywood, the three of us shared a sunburst-colored apartment building with a struggling actor, a surf-loving drummer, and a sad-eyed boy who had grown up in the Children of God cult and now worked at The Whisky on Sunset Boulevard.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery Jack Canfield 2011
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