smile-faced

Updated: May 6, 2025

And to be a ladies' man it is understood that he must be a fashionable man, a conformist, a pliant, time-serving, honey-mouthed, smile-faced, glove-handed, eel-natured kind of a creature, as ready to smile on a sin as a virtue; whose rebukes are so sugared that they are as agreeable to take as homeopathic pills.

G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women: On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And: Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty,: Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their: Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.