SAD-FACED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sad-faced mean? 

• SAD-FACED (adjective)
  The adjective SAD-FACED has 1 sense:

1. having a face with a sad expression

  Familiarity information: SAD-FACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAD-FACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a face with a sad expression

Context example:

the sad-faced clown

Similar:

faced (having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

So I gave him my word that I would come, and then all the rest of the day I went about the most sad-faced lad in Sussex.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sad-faced, elderly woman came into the room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember that during our short visit we found the vicar garrulous, but his lodger strangely reticent, a sad-faced, introspective man, sitting with averted eyes, brooding apparently upon his own affairs.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A twitch brought away the tangled red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On entering his room, I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)