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Bandera de Venezuela

/Sounds like 'kah-REH-toh'/

A person with a permanent serious, sour expression — the one who never smiles and seems perpetually unimpressed. In Venezuela, careto is the label for the stone-faced individual whose face communicates disapproval even at a party.

Example

"Todo el evento estuvo careto, sin reírse una sola vez."

"No seas careto, que es una fiesta, no un velorio. → He was stone-faced the whole event, didn't crack a single smile."

"Don't be so sour-faced, it's a party, not a funeral."

Regional synonyms:

Recordar que no todo el mundo se deja manipular. Se dice cuando alguien intenta engañar a quien ya lo conoce bien.