Definition of "keener" []

• Comparative form of keen: more keen (adjective)
• One who keens at a funeral. (noun)
• Someone who is excessively keen or eager, possibly making others look bad; a brown-noser. (noun)

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• "He was an adorable boy, his expression keener and more changeable than that of the changeling."
• "It would be difficult to explain what the change was, but it forcibly struck Alain: the air was more dignified, the expression keener; there was a look of conscious power and command about the man even at that distance; the intense, concentrated intelligence of his eye, his firm lip, his marked features, his projecting, massive brow, would have impressed a very ordinary observer."
• "The more absolutely he fails, the higher, it is probable, he will reckon his own merits; and the keener will be the sense of injury in that he whose work is of so high a nature cannot get bread, while they whose tasks are mean are lapped in luxury."