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Meanings of long-faced in English

Gloomy.

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                1
                The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
                Wired
                2
                Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
                Cities in Flight
                3
                In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
                Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 1 / Being se...
                4
                Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
                Reuters
                5
                But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
                Reuters
                1
                A glum, tired, downbeat group tonight, the bad news outweighing the good.
                Full Circle
                2
                Slidell looked so glum, I let the grating command pass without comment.
                Bones Never Lie
                3
                His attitude, contradictory but somehow attractive-almostpiquant-wasone of glum good cheer.
                IT
                4
                Even the glum-faced stepson of the narrator roused up into some interest.
                The Boys of Bellwood School; Or, Frank Jordan's Triumph
                5
                No burgers for a while. He looked glum as he said it.
                Kiss The Dead
                Usage of long-faced in English
                1
                Thin and long-faced, he'd taken off his hat in the gusting wind.
                A fierce radiance: a novel
                2
                Hugh Hungerford was slim and saturnine, long-legged, long-faced, clad in faded finery.
                A Dance with Dragons
                3
                You know that Sophomore Wilson, the long-faced fellow the boys call Squills?
                The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle
                4
                Arbiter Frava entered, graceful and long-faced, wearing robes of a soft violet.
                Arcanum Unbounded
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                She was long-faced and kind, speaking quickly in a powerful voice.
                Small wars: a novel
                6
                Yet for all their sins have these long-faced robbers a scapegoat.
                The Coming of the King
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                Wide-eyed, long-faced, the maid stands staring as if at an apparition.
                The sealed letter
                8
                Dr. Gorsch was a long-faced, long-necked guy hunched over a laptop.
                Gutshot straight
                9
                He has more intelligence than would appear, this long-faced Monsieur Lawrence of yours!
                The Mysterious Affair at Styles
                10
                They came back an hour later, long-faced and empty handed.
                Gold in the Sky
                11
                The woman was long-faced, high cheek-boned, red-haired, and freckled all over like a toad.
                Roughing It in the Bush
                12
                You made a beast of me, some long-faced people say.
                The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes)
                13
                He was a quiet, long-faced man who always looked worried.
                The city of ember: book 1
                14
                They need to see you plain, a long-faced lad in an old black cloak.
                A Dance with Dragons
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                In place of Captain Tovar, who the sensitive expected to see, was a long-faced majordomo.
                RUNNER
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                A contemporary portrait shows a long-faced gentleman of obvious intelligence with a steady, piercing gaze.
                Tulipomania: the story of the world's most coveted flower & the ...
                Long-faced through the time