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Recent Examples of unsmiling Prima felt that there was something humiliating in Ruth’s loyalty to Thalia, and in her unsmiling scrutiny of Heiss. Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025 Soon after the baby is declared dead, Nina is blamed by the woman’s husband and Nina’s unsmiling supervisor (Merab Ninidze) launches an investigation into what went wrong. Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025 The card's main feature is Trump's face — staring downwards at the camera, unsmiling — and is flanked by the Statue of Liberty, a circle of stars and Trump's signature. Rachel Raposas, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025 His Rick Honeycutt is utterly humorless, but the movie isn’t; there are plenty of laughs in pitting his deadpan impatience — conveyed by an unsmiling mouth under a push-broom mustache — against the idiot confidence of Billy Crudup’s man-child entrepreneur. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for unsmiling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsmiling
Adjective
  • Models walking the runway — staged at the Pinacoteca di Brera museum — had solemn expressions on their faces.
    Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
  • If anything, their Didi and Gogo (Winter plays the former, the more cerebral and anxious of the two, and Reeves the latter, the disgruntled yet tender beta clown) are still a little on the solemn side.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • TelevisaUnivsion issued a stern statement of displeasure at the situation.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In a series of rulings on motions brought by Combs after his conviction, Judge Subramanian has been stern.
    Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • From a potentially serious injury sustained by linebacker Dwight Nunoo to a multitude of mistakes, Saturday’s 51-10 loss to the host Connecticut Huskies (4-2) was devastating to FIU (2-3).
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • This was a period of serious violence in Argentina, with the most notable death in footballing terms being the assassination of General Omar Actis, the head of the World Cup organising committee.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Unsmiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsmiling. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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