Thesaurus / deadpan
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
“I’m patient because I cannot really run fast, and that’s my only option,” he said, with a deadpan.
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Halfway across the lobby, a tall swarthy man with one of those deadpan faces rose to greet him.
She continued to stare, deadpan and blank-eyed, with no answering flicker of a smile.
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Suzanne looked closely at him—he was so deadpan, it was hard to tell what was on his mind.
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WORDS RELATED TO DEADPAN
- austere
- bound
- bound and determined
- businesslike
- cold sober
- contemplative
- deadpan
- deliberate
- determined
- downbeat
- earnest
- funereal
- genuine
- go for broke
- grave
- grim
- honest
- in earnest
- intent
- long-faced
- meditative
- no-nonsense
- pensive
- pokerfaced
- reflective
- resolute
- resolved
- sedate
- set
- severe
- sincere
- sober
- solemn
- staid
- steady
- stern
- thoughtful
- unhumorous
- unsmiling
- weighty
- along for the ride
- apathetic
- blah
- callous
- chill
- cold
- coldhearted
- cool
- deadpan
- dispassionate
- emotionless
- flat
- frigid
- glacial
- going with the flow
- hard-boiled
- hard-hearted
- heartless
- impassive
- indifferent
- insensitive
- laid-back
- listless
- marble
- obdurate
- passionless
- phlegmatic
- quiet
- reserved
- reticent
- rolling with the punches
- thick-skinned
- uncompassionate
- undemonstrative
- unexcitable
- unfeeling
- unimpressionable
- unresponsive
- unsympathetic
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