mien

Speech parts

1. mien - Noun

2. Mien - Proper noun

Meaning

Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

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Examples

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education. Richard Steele

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. Edward Dahlberg

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien. Edward Carpenter

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. Finley Peter Dunne

As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen; One praised her ankles, one her eyes, One her dark hair and lovesome mien. So sweet a face, such angel grace, In all that land had never been. Cophetua sware a royal oath: "This beggar maid shall be my queen!" Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Amid the ever lasting gloom Ialdabaoth still retained his lofty mien. Blackened and shattered, terrible and sublime, he glanced upwards at the palace of the King of Heaven with a look of proud disdain, then turned away his head. Anatole France

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