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po-faced

/poh-feyst/US // ˈpoʊˌfeɪst //

板着脸,满面春风,满脸横肉,满脸通红

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : having an overly serious demeanor or attitude; humorless.

Examples

  • But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).

  • The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.

  • If Huckabee runs, the hurdles he faced the last time out, namely geography and money, would still be there.

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • Here were the sources (in part) of the Po and of the Rhine, but I was rather in haste to bid the former good-bye.

  • She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.

  • "I'll take charge of this, Captain Dobson," he brusquely informed the red-faced numskull.

  • He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.