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Recent Examples of unsmiling The portrait's lack of background and Trump's unsmiling gaze further differentiates it from those of his predecessors. Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 4 June 2025 And often next to Ed, holding a single malt, there would be an unsmiling writer of great pretension looking down at you from a great height. Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 June 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
  • Banners hang from the eaves of many houses, a solemn reminder to mark where residents were either killed or kidnapped.
    NBC News, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Yom Kippur is the most solemn Jewish holiday, marking the end of the 10 Days of Repentance that begin with Rosh Hashanah.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Several Dolphins who have been on the team for more than two years said Wednesday that McDaniel was more stern in meetings this week.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The culling of federal agencies has provoked stern warnings from nonprofit groups and other organizations that work to protect public lands and the agencies that manage them.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Rule out any more serious conditions.
    RikkiLynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Springsteen has been open over the years about navigating depression, which began to get serious during his early 30s.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Unsmiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsmiling. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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