smiley
adjective
smil·ey
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smiley
nounDefinition of smiley (Entry 2 of 2)
: emoticon
Examples of smiley in a Sentence
Adjective
She's a very smiley kid.Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Before El Tucan, Kuchar was known as a harmless, smiley dad-figure. — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, "Eight Takeaways From the PGA Tour's Regular Season," 6 Aug. 2019 Last year, Kensington Palace shared a very smiley photo of George to celebrate his fifth birthday. — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, "Kensington Palace Just Released Sweet Photos of Prince George in Honor of His 6th Birthday," 21 July 2019 But underneath the smiley press appearances and sleek bops is a young woman deeply unsatisfied with her life. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "All Miley Cyrus' Black Mirror Episode Makes Me Think About Is Britney Spears," 6 June 2019 Up until 1995, most of her modeling jobs required the peppy, smiley spirit favored by teen magazines—a tough image to navigate while still a teenager in suburban New Jersey. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "An Iconic Delia’s Model Remembers the Brand’s ’90s Heyday," 5 Nov. 2018 Over the years, the stumpy, smiley little pooches have appeared with Her Royal Highness in family photos, co-starred in sketches with Daniel Craig and posed with the Queen on the cover of Vanity Fair. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "The Last of the Queen’s Corgi Dynasty Has Died," 18 Apr. 2018 Jack is 13 now — a smiley kid with blond hair and taped-together blue-rimmed glasses — and his family had been anticipating this moment for years. — Eric Boodman, STAT, "‘That’s $425,000 right there’ — the anxious launch of a gene therapy with a record sticker price," 21 Mar. 2018 Jack is 13 now — a smiley kid with blond hair and taped-together, blue-rimmed glasses — and his family had been anticipating this moment for years. — Eric Boodman, BostonGlobe.com, "Gene therapy with record sticker price launched," 21 Mar. 2018 Because anything a famous mom does or posts online becomes an entryway for parental criticism, a smiley picture of North invited lurking critics to accuse Kim of having her infant daughter's eyebrows waxed. — Mariah Smith, Cosmopolitan, "When Did Kim Kardashian Become So Savage? A Sincere Look Back.," 2 Feb. 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Water cops patrolled the streets and a generation of children grew up learning about water conservation from Willie the Water Drop, a smiley blue mascot with a red bandana who visited local schools. — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, "One border crisis averted? How Juárez and El Paso became sister cities.," 4 Jan. 2019 Especially because Jamey's smiley and charming throughout! 14. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, "15 Ways Noah Centineo Is Peter Kavinsky x 100 in Sierra Burgess Is a Loser," 7 Sep. 2018 The smiley as irony -- happiness in the face of unhappiness -- figures heavily into KATSU’s work. — Brooke Mazurek, Billboard, "Why Justin Bieber, J Balvin & More Are Obsessed With Smiley Faces in Fashion," 14 June 2019 Would a message authored by Spears really feature an emoticon smiley, when history has demonstrated her preference for emoji? — New York Times, "When Britney Spears Posts on Instagram, a Thousand Conspiracies Flower," 12 June 2019 The children’s faces can at times resemble the advertising work that Fujikawa did for Beech-Nut and other brands—they’re expressive but simply rendered, with dark points for eyes and almost smiley-face-like lines for mouths. — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, "How Gyo Fujikawa Drew Freedom in Children’s Books," 21 June 2019 Many of us now use smiley or frowny faces to punctuate text messages, which suggests that language by itself is not as effective as advertised. — Frans De Waal, Discover Magazine, "Cheerful Chimps: Are Animals Really Happy When They Smile?," 31 May 2019 Many patients first encountered this new thinking in the form of charts that asked them to point to a range of smiley to frowning faces to indicate where their pain fell on the scale. — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, "Did the crackdown on opioid prescriptions go too far? Here's why doctors are reconsidering," 10 June 2019 Colleagues that Slack each other smiley-face emojis stay together. — Kelsey Gee, WSJ, "Slack Co-Founder on the Power of Emoji at the Office," 21 May 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'smiley.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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smiley
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of smiley
: happy and cheerful : smiling a lot
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