long-faced

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long-faced

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From long face + -ed.

adjective longfaced

Displaying sadness. He was long-faced so we knew she'd turned down his proposal.
literally Having a long face. The majority did not give forth very flattering portraits of him, certainly; nor were they by any means unanimous in their reflections; as some made him very long-faced, others very broad-faced, some tolerably well-looking, others vastly ill-looking, according to their several manners of reflecting:

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@misc{long_faced_2026,
  title = {long-faced},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/long-faced},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}