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  • adjective Not smiling; serious or grave

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  • adjective not smiling

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Examples

  • The service was clipped and unsmiling, which is usually followed by ` but efficient, 'but we sat with mostly empty dinner plates for 15 minutes, the kids (and their parents) getting restless in the hot side room.

    Austin360 - XL Headlines 2009

  • “Whenever I think back to what my friend said to me, that night outside the theater, it somehow makes me ashamed,” an unsmiling Obama tells Auma, while cutting “green peppers.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • When I finally looked, he lay there with his face next to mine, brow wrinkled, unsmiling.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Of medium height, stocky, tattooed, unsmiling, with eyes concealed by Wayfarers under a black leather porkpie hat, Rojas was a badass Eastsider.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • The unsmiling Shindo owns the Cafe Bonheur, where Uru gets a part-time job.

    Happy Cafe Books 1 and 2 » Manga Worth Reading 2010

  • Another way is Old School—unsmiling, monosyllabic, The Rock in Early Terminator mode.

    'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The ever unsmiling facade of bellicose Boehner and the cantankerous Cantor are counting on BHO to commit a faux pas so they can call the GOP cops to curb the enthusiasm of the common citizen.

    GOP is 'no friend of seniors' DNC says in TV ad 2009

  • When I finally looked, he lay there with his face next to mine, brow wrinkled, unsmiling.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • When I finally looked, he lay there with his face next to mine, brow wrinkled, unsmiling.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • The round-faced Kim Jong Un - unsmiling with his hair combed straight back - was one of the officials named and was sitting in the front row near his father with a military officer between them.

    N. Korea Media Prints Photos Of Likely Heir By KELLY OLSEN 2010

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