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face-saving

face-saving is the alternative form of facesaving.

Meaning of facesaving

Adjective

facesaving (comparative more facesaving, superlative most facesaving)

  1. That prevents loss of face and maintains one's dignity or prestige.
    • And it tends toward the conclusion that the best outcome is one in which Putin finds some face-saving exit: additional Ukrainian territory, a Ukrainian pledge of neutrality, a lifting of some of the sanctions.2022 March 29, Bret Stephens, “What if Putin Didn’t Miscalculate?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Forms of face-saving

comparativemore face-saving
superlativemost face-saving

Questions about face-saving

What is face-saving the alternative form of?
Face-saving is the alternative form of facesaving.

Words near face-saving in the dictionary

  1. face-plate
  2. face-plates
  3. face-sat
  4. face-saver
  5. face-savers
  6. face-saving
  7. face-sit
  8. face-sits
  9. face-sitting
  10. face-stalk
  11. face-stalked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: face-saving (page history and authors); facesaving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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