Definition of smiley face
: a line drawing of a smiling face
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Examples of smiley face in a Sentence
He ended his e-mail with a smiley face.
The teacher drew a smiley face on the student's homework.
Recent Examples of smiley face from the Web
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As people pay their bills online and post Facebook smiley faces instead of mailing birthday cards, the total pieces of mail the Postal Service shipped dropped to 149 billion last year, down from 212 billion just a decade earlier.
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Every child received a special egg with a smiley face on it that was redeemable for a prize.
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But not the best of me,’ Melania wrote to me, using a smiley face, of a photo of the two of us at a Trump New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago.
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If available for use on an instrument or effect, a small smiley face icon will appear.
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All these gifts come with notes signed off with a smiley face, and an obstinate red bow that becomes something of an ominous symbol after the third successive casual drop-by.
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Officers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Steele Creek Division received online heart and smiley face emojis this week for a good deed that involved a bit of heavy lifting.
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Kendall found a shady patch of grass, sat with her back against a tree, and wrote her letter (available for all to see for that low, low price of $2.99 a month), complete with smiley faces, hearts, and an undue number of exclamation points.
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In 2002, for instance, Lucas Helder planted bombs in mailboxes across the United States in an arrangement that would allow someone looking at the United States from space to see a smiley face.
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First Known Use of smiley face
1957
SMILEY FACE Defined for English Language Learners
smiley face
Definition of smiley face for English Language Learners
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: a symbol used in typing, writing, or drawing that represents a person smiling
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