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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a smooth or unwrinkled brow.

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Examples

  • We had doctors, of course, smooth-browed plastic surgeons and rumpled oncologists.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • We had doctors, of course, smooth-browed plastic surgeons and rumpled oncologists.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Stop seeing every Romulan of a certain age as a potential father—all right then, the one in his prime, square-faced, ridge-browed, graying at the temples, deferred to the elder who was the handsomer of the two—silver-haired, smooth-browed, fox-faced, patrician.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Stop seeing every Romulan of a certain age as a potential father—all right then, the one in his prime, square-faced, ridge-browed, graying at the temples, deferred to the elder who was the handsomer of the two—silver-haired, smooth-browed, fox-faced, patrician.

    CATALYST OF SORROWS Margaret Wander Bonanno 2004

  • Let us now go back a hundred years, to the time when William Blake was a fair-haired, smooth-browed boy, wandering aimlessly, after the manner of boys, about the streets of London.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

  • He sat silent a moment regarding his vision; smooth-browed, close-lipped, a purified and transmuted Tanqueray.

    The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904

  • With her arms folded she walked up and down the whole length of the room, talking slowly, smooth-browed, with a resolute profile.

    Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Here youth with its keenness of enjoyment and generous heartiness; freedom from care, smooth-browed and mirthful; liberal studies refining and elevating withal; the Numbers, whose ready sympathy had divided sorrow and multiplied joy, were associated as they never could be again; and so I doubt not many a one has felt as he stood at the door of academic life and looked away over its sunny meadows to the dark woodlands and rugged hillsides of world-life.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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