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long-faced

long-faced \long-faced\ adj.

  1. filled with or reflecting gloom.

    Syn: glum, gloomy.

  2. having a face longer than the usual.

Wiktionary
long-faced

a. Displaying sadness.

WordNet
long-faced
  1. adj. reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: glum, gloomy]

  2. having a face longer than the usual

Usage examples of "long-faced".

After a number of inquiries a long-faced macaque clad in heavy overcoat and cap finally responded.

At twenty-two, Bibbs was physically no more than the outer scaffolding of a man, waiting for the building to begin inside--a long-shanked, long-faced, rickety youth, sallow and hollow and haggard, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with a peculiar expression of countenance.

While one of these loiterers showed the red skin and wild accouterments of a native of the woods, the other exhibited, through the mask of his rude and nearly savage equipments, the brighter, though sun-burned and long-faced complexion of one who might claim descent from a European parentage.

All eyes strained west—ahead, and it would have been hard to say which eyes glared the more madly, those of the fur-clad, grinningly white-toothed men, or those of long-faced, grimacingly white-toothed beasts.

The man grins at Dorrin, then lets his face turn impassive as the captain walks past him to the top of the gangplank to greet the long-faced man with the folder.

The guard, with his gold cord and shiny top-boots, opened the carriage door and stood holding it as a sign of deference, while Philip and a porter with a white apron carefully carried out the long-faced Princess in her folding chair.