sad face

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Under the calculations, drawn in a different marker color, is a clear sad face -- a visual sign of failure.

From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025

So she can’t let them see a sad face.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

"It makes me sad because I will miss this house, miss my family, miss my friends, everything." says Pyper as she doodles a sad face on a piece of paper.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2023

In the margins of his journal, its blue cover now decorated with drawings of a pair of ghosts and a boy’s sad face, Tymophiy wrote: “Dreams do not come true.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022

“Oh, he didn’t take the tricycle,” she remembered, and made a sad face because she knew what I was about to figure out.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos