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mien

[meen] / min /


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Referring to his dour mien and predilection for charcoal gray garb, Rand called him her “undertaker.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

It brings me no pleasure to report that Trump possessed the perfect mien for the performance of wrestling.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 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

It captures some of the inquisitive humanity that Steinmetz, a tall and direct people’s person with a John Malkovich mien, conveys in life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

He liked the community’s stasis, its plebeian virtues and unassuming mien.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Played with hangdog miens by the gifted Mr. Dossett and Mr. Sills, these men soon betray their bosses and switch sides.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2016

The cheerful, demonstrative callowness of Herring’s Joey makes for an apt-enough contrast with the miens of the older figures, and Carpenter’s Mark is a sensitive, thoughtful foil to everyone else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2015

Here were traditional outsiders, some of them outspoken victims of childhood bullying, who, twenty years ago, were dismissed by the jock establishment for bringing their alternative fashion sense and disaffected miens to an Olympic-style competition.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014

Yet while they never quite eradicate their masculine miens and mannerisms, they never feel more truly themselves than when they’re wearing women’s clothes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2014

Their manners and miens reflected the Spartan personal discipline the organization demanded, and none of them would utter anything but Nation of Islam cliches.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey


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