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faceless (comparative more faceless, superlative most faceless)

1. (literally) Having no face.
   • 2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines:

     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.

2. (idiomatic) Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.

   A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.

   • 2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club:

     With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.

3. (idiomatic) Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics.

   I started working for a faceless corporation.

   • 1993, Steven G. Kellman, The Plague: Fiction and Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:

     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.

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