The word 'smiley' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a facial expression, as informally as a smiley face emoji or as formally as a description of someone's expression. For example: "She had an amused yet slightly embarrassed smily on her face as the joke was repeated to her yet again."
Even during the tense climax, he keeps things light, combining smiley walkout with stinging kicker: "It's getting a little Diane Sawyer in here," referencing the famously intrusive interviewer.
Matt and Sweat escaped from adjoining cells by cutting holes in pipes in the prison's heating system and had the time and nerve to leave a note bearing a smiley face and the words "Have a nice day".
She is polite, softly spoken, smiley, elegant, proper – the perfect counter to the crusty green stereotype.
And I can't deny the twinge of pride I felt each time the smiley face appeared – perhaps the age of the adult star chart really is upon us.
Once, the brush's power cut out at 1 56 and I only got a three-star rating, and no smiley face.
They all issue statements insisting they never in their lives saw that email, even though responses from each of them range from "Great– splash when it fertilises", "Get a camera up there, too, yeah?" and a smiley emoticon (from Murdoch).
Some mutter that she could yet have to answer to charges of perjury arising from the sale of Mr Thaksin's telecoms company five years ago, but that will have to wait until after July 3rd.In contrast to the smiley-feely Ms Yingluck, Mr Abhisit and his deputy and finance minister, Korn Chatikavanij, are both Oxford-educated technocrats, less polished at working a crowd.
Mr Jobs then forwarded the e-mail to an Apple human resources executive, adding a smiley-face emoticon.Inside Google, discussions about do-not-poach deals were clearly treated as sensitive.
Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" has a smiley-face balloon on its cover.
But what worked in Tabasco in 1994 will not work for national elections today, so Mr Madrazo was rebranded this year as a smiley-faced "Roberto", who promised, "Roberto can do it".
Tinker Tailor's Gary Oldman is up for best actor as reserved spook George Smiley in Tomas Alfredson's critically-lauded adaptation of the John le Carré cold war thriller, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Kathy Burke have supporting nods.
