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

He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

So she can’t let them see a sad face.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

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

“Why do you have such a sad face? You should be happy now. No need to be shy with me.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar