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SWEET-FACED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sweet-faced mean?
• SWEET-FACED (adjective)
The adjective SWEET-FACED has 1 sense:
1. having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition
Familiarity information: SWEET-FACED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a pleasing face or one showing a sweet disposition
Context example:
a sweet-faced child
Similar:
faced (having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination)
Context examples
The crowd melted away, after the bustling fashion common to arrival platforms; and I was beginning to feel uneasy, lest I might miss my guest, when a sweet-faced, dainty-looking girl stepped up to me, and, after a quick glance, said: Dr. Seward, is it not?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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