| 单词 | serious-faced |
| 释义 | > as lemmasserious-faced Forming (often parasynthetic) adjectives, as serious-eyed, serious-faced, serious-looking, serious-seeming, etc. See also serious-minded adj. ΚΠ 1814 La Belle Assemblée Jan. 20/2 Her father was a venerable, serious-looking man. 1831 L. E. Landon Romance & Reality I. xxii. 271 Look at that serious-seeming personage, who walks from one end of the room as if he meant to commit suicide at the other. 1848 Missionary Chron. Mar. 75/2 A sister, a serious-faced intelligent woman, was the first to receive us. 1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye I. 194 The light-hearted Irishman delights to ‘chaff’ and to be ‘chaffed’; the..more serious-hearted Highlander can neither do the one nor endure the other. 1969 H. Brodkey in Stories in Almost Classical Mode (1989) 107 The cries of serious-eyed..French children at play. 1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) xi. 222 The serious-sounding Environmental Maze in Wales. < as lemmas |
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