─── A

• Absent: preoccupat* | preoccupied
• Agonized: agonizzante | as if in pain or tormented
• Alluring: allettante | attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
• Appealing: attraente | attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest

─── B

• Beatific/Blissful: beatific*/beat* | showing a state of happiness or divine contentment
• Bilious: bilios* | ill-natured
• Black: fare il viso buio | angry or sad, or see hostile
• Bleak: brull* | see grim and hopeless
• Blinking: sbattere le palpebre | surprise, or lack of concern
• Blithe: allegr* | carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
• Brooding: meditabond* | see anxious and gloomy
• Bug eyed: frightened or surprised

─── C

• Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
• Cheeky: sfacciat* | cocky, insolent
• Cheerless: triste | sad
• Choleric: colleric* | hot-tempered, irate
• Coy: schiv* | flirtily playful, or evasive
• Crestfallen: avvilit* | see despondent

─── D

• Darkly: cup* | with depressed or malevolent feelings
• Deadpan: impassibile | expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
• Dejected: sconsolat* | see despondent
• Derisive: derisori* | see sardonic
• Despondent: scoraggiat* | depressed or discouraged
• Doleful: triste | sad or afflicted
• Dour: cup* | stern or obstinate; see also despondent
• Downcast: abbattut* | see despondent
• Dream: sognante | distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing

─── E

• Ecstatic: estatic* | delighted or entranced
• Etched: caustic* | see fixed

─── F

• Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
• Fixed: ferm* | concentrated or immobile
• Furtive: furtiv* | stealthy

─── G

• Gazing: guardare fisso | staring intently
• Glancing: gettare uno sguardo | staring briefly as if curious but evasive
• Glaring: torv* | see hostile
• Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
• Gloomy: tetr* | see despondent and sullen
• Glowering: guardare in cagnesco | annoyed or angry
• Glowing: raggiante | see radiant
• Grave: tetr* | serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
• Grim: truce | see despondent; also, fatalistic or pessimistic

─── H

• Haunted: perseguitat* | frightened, worried, or guilty
• Hopeless: senza speranza | depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
• Hostile: ostile | aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
• Hunted: braccat* | tense as if worried about pursuit

─── I

• Impassive: impassibile | see deadpan
• Inscrutable: inscrutabile | mysterious, unreadable

─── J

• Jeering: beffard* | insulting or mocking

─── L

• Languid: languid* | lazy or weak
• Leering: guardare di traverso | see meaningful; also, sexually suggestive

─── M

• Meaningful: significativ* | to convey an implicit connotation or shared secret
• Mild: mite | easygoing
• Mischievous: malizios* | annoyingly or maliciously playful
• Mocking: beffard* | making fun of someone or something in a cruel way; derisive
• Moody: lunatic* | see sullen

─── P

• Pained: addolorat* | affected with discomfort or pain
• Pallid: pallid* | see wan
• Peering: curios* | with curiosity or suspicion
• Peeved: innervosit* | annoyed
• Petulant: petulant* | see cheeky and peeved
• Pitying: simpatizzante | sympathetic
• Pleading: supplichevole | seeking apology or assistance
• Pouting: imbronciat* | see sullen

─── Q

• Quizzical: interrogatori* | questioning or confuse

─── R:

• Radiant: radiante | bright, happy
• Roguish: biricchin* | see mischievous

─── S

• Sanguine: sanguign* | bloodthirsty, confident
• Sardonic: sardonic* | mocking
• Scornful: sprezzante | contemptuous or mocking
• Scowling: guardare in malo modo | displeased or threatening
• Searching: indagatore | curious or suspicious
• Set: impostat* | see fixed
• Shamefaced: vergognos* | ashamed or bashful
• Slack-jawed: a bocca aperta | dumbfounded or surprised
• Sly: sornione | cunning; see also furtive and mischievous
• Snarling: ringhios* | surly
• Sneering: beffard* | see scornful
• Somber: tetr* | see grave
• Sour: aspr* | unpleasant
• Stolid: stolid* | inexpressive
• Straight-faced: impassibile | see deadpan
• Sulky: imbronciat* | see sullen
• Sullen: scontros* | resentful

─── T

• Taunting: beffard* | see jeering
• Taut: tes* | high-strung
• Tense: tes* | see taut
• Tight: tes* | see pained and taut

─── U

• Unblinking: ferm* | see fixed

─── V

• Vacant: vacante | blank or stupid looking
• Veiled: velat* | see inscrutable

─── W

• Wan: pale, sickly; see also faint
• Wary: diffidente | cautious or cunning
• Wide eyed: a occhi spalancati | frightened or surprised
• Wild eyed: excited, frightened, or stressful
• Wistful: pieno di rammarico | yearning or sadly thoughtful
• Withering: devastating; see also wrathful
• Woeful: full of grief or lamentation
• Wolfish: lupesc* | see leering and mischievous
• Wrathful: irat* | indignant or vengeful
• Wry: stort* | twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling