Definition of "smileless" [smile•less]

• Without a smile, unsmiling. (adjective)

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• "The references to Biblical plagues and destruction sent down from God do not mark out Karrer as Lot or a similar figure of Biblical misfortune; it is more likely the town itself is Gomorrah, smote for the sins of its inhabitants, plagued with gray ugly weather and congenital ennui and smileless faces."
• "In the pictures always were her mother, a handsome, fair woman who looked as if she stepped out of a Howard Hawks movie and should have been named Slim, and her father, whose military heritage seemed inscribed in the leather of a Spartan shield that comprised the perpetually tanned hide of his smileless face."
• "She came forward, smileless, with disapproval written all over her face, said most coldly, ‘Good morning, Mr. Clemens,’ and passed on out."