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Definition of Smileless
1. a. Not having a smile.
Definition of Smileless
1. Adjective. Without a smile, unsmiling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Smileless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smileless
Literary usage of Smileless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Combe, Dr. ¡Syntax, Tour II. cv smileless, without a smile. ... And so the old
man, whose life had been so smileless, died smiling. ..."
2. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1908)
"The women fasted sitting on the ground, and hence arose the aetiological myth
that Demeter herself, the desolate mother, fasted sitting on the 'smileless ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for
that smileless eternity to which they look forward, by banishing all gaiety ..."
4. Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion Daniel Shutter (1892)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for
that smileless eternity by banishing all gayety from their hearts and all ..."
5. Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion Daniel Shutter (1892)
"There are not a few who, even in this life, seem to be preparing themselves for
that smileless eternity by banishing all gayety from their hearts and all ..."
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