long face



decorousness, demureness, earnestness, formality, frown, glower, gravity, grimace, grimness, lower, moue, mow, pout, scowl, sedateness,

   perform service - anoint, confirm, impose, lay hands on, minister, officiate ,

   tambourine - bongo drum, conga, drum, drumhead, drumstick, jazz stick, kettle, kettledrum, side drum, snare, snare drum, tabor, tenor drum, timbrel, timpani,

   chairmanship - Lordship, archbishopric, aristocracy, bishopric, chancellery, consulate, custody, deanery, dictatorship, directorate, directorship, episcopacy, generalship, guardianship, helm,

   underground route - back door, back stairs, back way, escape hatch, side door, underground ,

   parse - analyse, block out, bracket, conjugate, decline, detail, enumerate, hyphenate, inflect, itemize, mark, number, outline, parenthesize, point,

   swing the stern - about ship, back and fill, bear off, beat, beat about, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cast, change course, come about, go about, jibe, ply,

   beautification - adornment, decoration, development, elaboration, embellishment, evolution, maturation, perfection, refinement, seasoning ,

   krone - cent, colon, dollar, franc, pie, pound, rouble, shilling, sou, yen ,

   seldom met with - cheeseparing, chintzy, exiguous, infrequent, meagre, miserly, niggardly, piddling, poor, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping,

   strangling - asphyxia, asphyxiation, beheading, burning, capital punishment, censorship, choke, choking, constrictive, contrary, counter-productive, crackdown, crosswise, crucifixion, crushing,