单词 | placid-faced |
释义 | > as lemmasplacid-faced Forming (chiefly parasynthetic) adjectives, as placid-faced, placid-tempered, etc. ΚΠ 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xiv. 165 A little fat placid-faced old gentleman. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xii. 203 Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. v. 79 The neutral, placid-faced Miss Arrowpoint. 1909 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 7/3 The round-faced, placid-eyed, spectacled man of unobtrusive appearance. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away & Other Stories 63 The large, placid-seeming, fair-complexioned woman. 1936 E. Sitwell Victoria of Eng. i. 26 She [sc. the Princess of Leiningen] always..seemed to be moving, placid-tempered and obstinate, in a hurricane of flying feathers and loud-rustling silks. 2000 Washington Times (Nexis) 21 Jan. e6 A broken computer wields a demonic power capable of changing even the most placid-mannered mortal into a screaming lunatic. < as lemmas |
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