Meaning

Using or involving the face..

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1. Using or involving the face.
2. (especially law) In a facial manner; on its face; as something appears to an initial impression, prior to a deeper analysis.

Example Sentences

"The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."

Near-synonym: superficially

If a judicial authorization is facially valid, the party challenging it will have the burden of proving that it was invalid.

[I]t is no answer to a claim of discrimination from a litigant in a wheelchair to say that everyone is expected to climb the stairs in front of a courthouse to have their day in Court, and that the wheelchair-bound litigant was treated no differently than anyone else. Facially neutral legislation can be discriminatory [...]

An independent forensic accountant found evidence of gross financial mismanagement while Hegseth was administering two small nonprofits. This information is redundant evidence of what is facially obvious: his unreadiness to manage the Pentagon’s almost $900 billion budget […]

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When Should You Use Facially?

Use facially when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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