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faceless Definition

face·less (fāslis)

adjective

  1. lacking a face
  2. lacking a distinct character; without individuality; anonymous

faceless Usage Examples

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: The story asks you to reflect on the dangers of making people faceless.

Modifies a noun

  • ones: In 1967, Pauline Collins played Samantha Briggs in the Doctor Who story, The Faceless Ones.
  • bureaucrat: How short a memory do these faceless bureaucrats think the public of the city have?
  • bureaucracy: In that way we can keep our citizens free of any fear that a faceless bureaucracy in Brussels will run their lives.
  • corporation: Blogs are bringing a level of humanity back to the faceless corporation.
  • enemy: How can we really fight a faceless, anonymous enemy?
  • mass: Also worth saying that seeing all Muslims as a faceless mass doesn't help.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: They are not faceless people, they come to our meetings.
  • rather: A decent pub for this generally rather faceless part of the world.
  • just: But we are made to confront the fact that such women, who are usually invisible and ignored, are not just faceless domestics.
  • pretty: Most of them are pretty faceless and anonymous - he's pretty funny looking, you'd recognize him anywhere.
  • often: Duff certainly has a unique voice, clearly identifiable among the often faceless pop crowd.
  • seemingly: A shadowy, seemingly faceless monk who appears in the darkness without warning is just one of the delights that awaits unsuspecting visitors.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The city is becoming faceless; we could be anywhere.
  • remain: As such V remains faceless; he is himself and he is all of us.

Browse dictionary entries near faceless

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