open-faced
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.45 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having an honest and sincere expression.
Example Sentences
- "Growing up in a largely brunchless society, my family’s Sunday ritual involved topping each bagel half with cream cheese and smoked salmon, or chopped liver, or egg and onion, and arranging them open-faced on big plates so everyone could take what they wanted, with a fish ball on the side."
- "Frank Broughton was a finely-grown, open-faced boy of thirteen, the eldest of a family of four, and to-morrow he was to be launched upon the unknown sea of public-school life."
- "There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed."