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mien

[meen] / min /


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The protesters’ mien was sober, they presented themselves as adults who were morally serious, they were morally responsible and meant moral business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Instead, the carefully prepared Cohen was subdued and succinct, admitting his lies and misdeeds in service of Donald Trump with a sorrowful mien.

From Salon • May 15, 2024

Audiences delighted in the personality of Judge Lance Ito and the beach bum mien of witness Kato Kaelin.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Quickly, they assembled a ranked list of about a dozen men, more diverse in ethnicity and mien than Tolins’s initial character description — “old WASP-y money” — might suggest.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Her mien wavered from severe, when she watched the men loading the wagons, to smiling when she spoke with a girl standing nearby.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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