mien
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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
The directors, called to an emergency meeting at the home of the chairman of the board of the American Steel Corp., have the haughty mien of British aristocrats.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
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
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
He tried to maintain his usual breezy mien, but it often cracked, producing outbursts of temper over even minor problems.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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