smiley
a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression, as :‐) for a smiling face or ;‐) for a winking face.: Compare emoticon.
Usually smile face . a drawing of a face consisting of a usually yellow circle with an upturned curve for a smile and two dots for eyes.
cheerful; smiling.
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Jane, born 1949, U.S. novelist.
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How to use smiley in a sentence
In their wet swimsuits and dripping hair, they castigate her, with a great deal of smiley passive-aggression, for not responding to the group chat.
Bodies Bodies Bodies Updates the Old-School Slasher Formula and Ends on a High Note | Stephanie Zacharek | August 5, 2022 | TimeThe first one came punctuated with a smiley face, as though the dissident were still adding emojis to the blog that started his political career.
He included an emoji of a smiley face spouting tears of laughter.
Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can’t quit the feud | Paul Farhi | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostIn a guest book outside the door, Greene writes “You’re a traitor,” accompanied by a smiley face.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s years-long campaign to disparage and attack Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Philip Bump | May 14, 2021 | Washington PostThat’s totally different from basic smiley face emoji, for example.
The woman who will decide what emoji we get to use | Tanya Basu | May 11, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Tavis smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.”
smiley, meanwhile, tried to tamp down fears by comparing the Ebola outbreak to the SARS outbreak of 2003.
Tavis smiley criticized the media for Ebola fear-mongering, and George Will claimed the virus could spread through the air.
smiley is a PBS talk show host who has written several previous books about the African-American experience.
Tavis Smiley Humanely Chronicles MLK’s Sad Last Year | Scott Porch | October 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA Thousand Acres by Jane smiley Lear gave away his kingdom.
It is where the stranger says to smiley, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog."
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineAnd you—why should you be going to expense, and knocking out things that costs money, because Mother smiley's coming?
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeIf she could get him to swallow some hot food before Mrs. smiley came, all might yet be well.
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeHe was thinking of Miriam Usbech as she was twenty years ago, and of Mrs. smiley as she appeared at present.
Orley Farm | Anthony TrollopeHe was considered to have made his offer, and Mrs. smiley thereupon formally accepted him.
Orley Farm | Anthony Trollope
British Dictionary definitions for smiley
/ (ˈsmaɪlɪ) /
given to smiling; cheerful
depicting a smile: a smiley badge
any of a group of symbols depicting a smile, or other facial expression, used in electronic mail
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