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mien

[meen] / min /


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The protesters’ mien was sober, they presented themselves as adults who were morally serious, they were morally responsible and meant moral business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 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

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

Cakes selected a clown with a gun, as De Niro’s mien scowled on the screen above.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024

Then they hooked little fingers and shook hands gravely with the mien of bankers at a convention.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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