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  • adjective having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition

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Examples

  • 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

  • The same two bucks I put in the sweet-faced woman's bucket.

    Charlie Carillo: Silent Night, Deductible Night Charlie Carillo 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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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