downcast vs long-faced

downcast

adj

  • Feeling despondent. 

  • Looking downwards. 

verb

  • To cast from supertype to subtype. 

  • To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. 

noun

  • A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine. 

  • A cast from supertype to subtype. 

long-faced

adj

  • Displaying sadness. 

  • Having a long face. 

How often have the words downcast and long-faced occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )