- Noun: Mien
- air or bearing especially as expressive of attitude or personality : demeanor <of aristocratic mien>
- appearance, aspect <dresses of formal mien>
- Synonyms:
- Appearance
- Look
- Expression
- Countenance
- Aura
- Demeanor
- Attitude
- Air
- Manner
- Usage:
“This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at once the polecat and the fox.”
- Encountered:
Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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