Pronunciations
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/feɪst/
Adjective
Having a specified type or number of faces.
Usage- In compounds
- not-comparable
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The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! / Where got'st thou that goose look?
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c. 1694, William Bradshaw and Robert Midgley, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Volume 7, London: 1754, Letter VI, p. 148, He either heaves out fulsome hypochondriac Sighs, with supercilious Looks, and Chaps set like the Furrows of a sour-faced Hagi; or else he is tickled into a loud ungovernable Laughter, and all his Carriage is ridiculous and wanton.
O tan-faced prairie-boy, / […] / You came, taciturn, with nothing to give—we but look'd on each other, / When lo! more than all the gifts of the world you gave me.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye / Who cheer when soldier lads march by, / Sneak home and pray you'll never know / The hell where youth and laughter go.
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Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.
Having the outer surface dressed, with the front, as of a dress, covered ornamentally with another material.
Usage- not-comparable
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The cuffs were faced with velvet.
With a specific kind of face.
Usage- not-comparable
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stony-faced
Adjective
drunk
Usage- Slang
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That night was the first time I ever got faced.
Adjective
having a face or facing especially of a specified kind or number; often used in combination
- Antonyms
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a neatly faced terrace