Explore Unsmiling through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like joyless. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Unsmiling meaning
Not smiling; serious or grave
Synonyms of Unsmiling
Using Unsmiling
- The main meaning on this page is: Not smiling; serious or grave
- Useful related words include: joyless.
Context around Unsmiling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 17.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unsmiling
- In this selection, "unsmiling" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 17.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, twenty, motionless, solemnly, police, down and lips stand out and add context to how "unsmiling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a grim unsmiling and unforgiving and are motionless unsmiling as the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unsmiling" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aapp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unsmiling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Twenty unsmiling police officers materialized from a backroom. (8 words)
The clothes are works of art being marched solemnly, unsmiling, down the runway. (13 words)
The unsmiling lips are usually full, but the mouth is depicted fairly narrow, usually just slightly wider than the nose. (20 words)
Perched on the set designer Levi Lack’s rendering of the Fillmore’s mezzanine, the actors are motionless, unsmiling as the music booms around them. (25 words)
Heckscher contends that the enduring image of Wilson as a grim, unsmiling and unforgiving figure dates from this visit home during the conference. (23 words)
The unsmiling lips are usually full, but the mouth is depicted fairly narrow, usually just slightly wider than the nose. (20 words)
Example sentences (5)
Twenty unsmiling police officers materialized from a backroom.
Perched on the set designer Levi Lack’s rendering of the Fillmore’s mezzanine, the actors are motionless, unsmiling as the music booms around them.
The clothes are works of art being marched solemnly, unsmiling, down the runway.
Heckscher contends that the enduring image of Wilson as a grim, unsmiling and unforgiving figure dates from this visit home during the conference.
The unsmiling lips are usually full, but the mouth is depicted fairly narrow, usually just slightly wider than the nose.