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Long-faced

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Displaying sadness.

    "He was long-faced so we knew she'd turned down his proposal."

  2. 2
    Having a long face. literally

    "The majority did not give forth very flattering portraits of him, certainly; nor were they by any means unanimous in their reflections; as some made him very long-faced, others very broad-faced, some tolerably well-looking, others vastly ill-looking, according to their several manners of reflecting: […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a face longer than the usual wordnet

Etymology

From long face + -ed.

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