facelessness noun
Synonyms & Antonyms for dainty
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Recent Examples on the Web
//At the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., visitors have been leaving combat boots at the foot of the wall for decades in an attempt to personalize its faceless surface.
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Kiley Bense, Longreads, "Whose Boots on the Ground," 7 Nov. 2019
//Slender Man -- a menacing, faceless specter in a dark suit, sometimes portrayed with octopus-like tentacles -- is said to haunt children and lurks in the darkest corners of the Web.
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Faith Karimi, CNN, "A Wisconsin girl who was stabbed 19 times after a slumber party shares her story," 25 Oct. 2019
//The people are evocative but allegorical—faceless gardeners and shopkeepers and tea-drinkers, all bathed in the romantic nostalgia of a quasi-pastoral English village.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, "Video Games Are Better Without Game-Play," 22 Oct. 2019
//Interior offensive linemen, forever faceless, are prized and celebrated among their peers.
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Benjamin Hoffman, New York Times, "N.F.L.’s Aerial Focus Changes Positions Off the Ball, Too," 5 Sep. 2019
//Since children of color are not afforded innocence in the same way as their white counterparts, the sibling’s bonding time features conversations about discrimination, gun violence and the fear of becoming another faceless statistic.
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Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, "Review: ‘What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?’ relays African American anger," 5 Sep. 2019
//Another faceless character is IG-11, an assassin droid voiced by director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).
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James Hibberd, EW.com, "The Mandalorian unmasked: ‘We did things no Star Wars fan has ever seen’," 5 Sep. 2019
//Wolfenstein’s Nazis aren’t just faceless troops of an evil empire bent on world domination, but the violent extension of toxic political ideas.
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Matthew Gault, Time, "Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review: Grab a Pal and Fight Some Nazis," 12 Aug. 2019
//As Davis was coming up, sports owners were largely faceless.
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Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "How the Influence of Al Davis Shaped the Modern NFL," 27 Aug. 2019
First Known Use of faceless
1568, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
History and Etymology for faceless
Dictionary Entries near faceless
More Synonyms and Antonyms offaceless
1
lacking in distinctive features or qualities
- it was precisely because he was a faceless individual that the serial killer was able to go on for so long without detection
- boring,
- drab,
- dreary,
- dry,
- dull,
- flat,
- humdrum,
- leaden,
- monotonous,
- pedestrian,
- stodgy,
- stuffy,
- tame,
- tedious,
- tiresome,
- tiring,
- uninteresting,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- wearying
2
not named or identified by a name
- faceless gossipmongers had been spreading rumors about the actor's sexual identity for years
More Definitions forfaceless
usually disapproving
: not having any unusual and interesting qualities