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face
Synonyms and Antonyms of face
- the criminal hid his face from the news cameras as he slumped into the patrol car
- the face of the store building has been altered many times over the years to meet changing tastes and needs
- it's rude to make a face when your dinner hostess offers you broccoli
- a much-needed sandblasting revealed that the face of the old stone church is actually a pinkish granite
- a rainy day is no excuse for just moping around with a long face, so let's do something
- on the face of it, the country went to war for noble reasons
hint, implication, insinuation, resemblance, suggestion
affectation, demonstration, display, fiction, image, imitation, imposture, likeness, make-believe (also make-belief), pose, pretense (or pretence), representation, simulation
cloak, disguise, exterior, facade (also façade), front, gloss, mask, masquerade, patina, Potemkin village, shape, shell, surface, veneer
- I see they've hired some new faces
- you have to wonder how anyone has the face to ask such a personal question
audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, brassiness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah (also chutzpa), crust, effrontery, gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity
- he managed to maintain face despite the endless series of crises
face
Synonyms and Antonyms of face
- the house faces the sparkling blue waters of the Pacific Ocean
- movie superheroes who are ever ready to face danger without blinking an eye
- we decided to face our old frame house with aluminum siding
- the Boston Red Sox were eager to face their traditional rivals, the Yankees, in the play-offs
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