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

Gudetama is a genderless, cartoon egg with a sad face and a shiny yellow butt; a burnout, a slacker, a malingerer, crushed under the weight of their own melancholy.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022

She didn’t want to argue, and she didn’t want to look at Ben’s sad face.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder