mien
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His briefcase-carrying mien made Jackie think he was a lawyer, and we learn he graduated from Harvard but dropped out of law school as “an act of personal protest,” or so he claims.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Squinting in the morning sun, she had bat ears, a downturned mouth and the mien of a pissed-off mother-in-law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
Cakes selected a clown with a gun, as De Niro’s mien scowled on the screen above.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
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
We passed through the outskirts of Norfolk, and the people of that town surveyed our bedraggled carnage with a gray, defeated mien.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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