faceless
adjEtymology From face + -less.
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Literally Having no face.
- These vague, faceless spectres from my ramblesome past have as much right as anyone else to be ranked among the salvors of the Navy's songs.2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines:
2
Idiomatic Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.
- A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.
- With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:
3
Idiomatic Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics.
- I started working for a faceless corporation.
- The highest official in Oran remains anonymous, referred to merely as "the Prefect." Use of the majusculed generic title instead of a proper name is less suggestive of a faceless tyrant, a Maghreb Big Brother, than of the detached, ineffectual bureaucrat he appears to be at every meeting.1993, Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:
- Derived terms
- faceless bureaucrat, facelessly, faceless man, facelessness