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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a frozen smile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a smile that appears stiff or unnatural, often indicating discomfort or a lack of genuine emotion.
Example: "She greeted him with a frozen smile, masking her true feelings of disappointment."
Alternatives: "a stiff smile" or "a rigid smile".
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She wears a frozen smile.
"You like meat, right?" A frozen smile.
Mr. Tung watched with a frozen smile.
"Willy and I are skiing lap after lap today," Mr. Nafstad said, a frozen smile pasted red on his face.
Mr. Stringer, for his part, stood there with a frozen smile, his eyes fixed in the distance.
During a recent visit to Christiania, I recalled the words of 'The Battlesong' with a frozen smile.
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Ms. Taylor's Kitty Leroy, composed with a dignified, frozen smile, comes off the best in the ensemble, but as a veteran of the notorious bomb "Moose Murders," she has experience soldiering through difficult circumstances.
The answer was a silent, frozen smile.
"I looked up at the towers rising above me, overgrown with greenery, and suddenly I shivered with fear as I saw a giant frozen smile looming down at me," wrote the novelist Pierre Loti in 1912, describing the extraordinary temple of Bayon.
Lynn Schwab, representing love and sensuality, dances with an odd frozen smile, while Ms. Iwahori, in her depiction of fury, is so grim that her persona is unintentionally comic.
A cigarette hung from a frozen grin.
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