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Meanings of deadpan in inglês

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deadpan
espanhol
humor seco

Type of humor.

        deadpan

        Deliberately impassive in manner.

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              Examples for "impassive"
              Examples for "impassive"
              1
              Alter course to west by south. He glanced at Bolitho's impassive features.
              Success to the Brave
              2
              Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged impassive.
              Les Misérables
              3
              The Englishmen kept staring in the same impassive fashion with fixed glances.
              The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
              4
              But she spoke at length in the same impassive voice as before:
              The Old Homestead
              5
              I glanced at the strange woman; she sat as impassive as ever.
              Dead Man's Rock
              1
              His rabbity features stayed expressionless; he'd seen his share of bodies before.
              American empire: blood and iron
              2
              The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage.
              The Blind Spot
              3
              He spoke the words deliberately; his face remained absolutely still and expressionless.
              Greatheart
              4
              Hearing my approach, they exchanged slicing sideways glances before facing me, expressionless.
              Bones on Ice
              5
              Ken Day sat, expressionless, in the front row of the public benches.
              Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
              1
              M. Didot's face was as unexpressive and as ambiguous as an oracle.
              Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
              2
              Giordano's original melody is for the greater part commonplace and unexpressive.
              Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
              3
              Fletcher Kale's gray eyes remained flat and unexpressive, but he turned quite pale.
              Phantoms
              4
              Did I not know what a lovely soul hid behind that unexpressive countenance?
              Wilfrid Cumbermede
              5
              Not bad faces on the whole, but heavy and unexpressive.
              Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
              1
              I didn't know which one because they were all so poker-faced.
              The Guardian
              2
              Mohammad asks the clutch of poker-faced farmers standing round and stroking their beards.
              Reuters
              3
              He waited there, poker-faced, until Payne took a seat as well.
              Sword of god
              4
              He just nodded, poker-faced, and kept his eyes on the road.
              Dexter Is Dead
              5
              That drew wry smiles out of Carmen and Nancy, though Jenny remained poker-faced.
              You can't stop me
              Usage of deadpan in inglês
              1
              Ishii portrays painful humiliations to deadpan comic effect without belittling the victims.
              Reuters
              2
              Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen.
              Wired
              3
              I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
              The last four days of Paddy Buckley
              4
              That deadpan quality was much in evidence as he explained this move.
              The Guardian
              5
              I mean, he looks goofy, and he's got that great deadpan delivery.
              Feminist dot com
              6
              Butler snorted, as he usually did immediately before delivering a deadpan line.
              Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
              7
              Robert gave it to him, real deadpan, and asked how he felt.
              Go home, stranger
              8
              Entire thing pursued with deadpan seriousness as though Holmes had actually lived.
              The new yorker
              9
              Hi. He wore the guarded, deadpan expression that children assume for introductions.
              Ladder of years: a novel
              10
              Waititi, on the other hand, comes from the world of deadpan comedy.
              Wired
              11
              It's as if he aims for a style-less, deadpan mode of painting.
              The Irish Times
              12
              Bolt upright, with deadpan smiles, they move as if in slow motion.
              The Guardian
              13
              The comedy series has a very droll, completely deadpan format… Video, Audio
              Radio NZ
              14
              His mentor is Judson, the deadpan librarian emeritus played by Bob Newhart.
              Reuters
              15
              Chakas and Riser watched with us on the command deck, faces deadpan.
              Halo Cryptum
              16
              He exhaled a puff of smoke and gave her a deadpan stare.
              Watch them die
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              português
              deadpan
              espanhol
              humor seco
              Deadpan through the time
              Deadpan across language varieties
              United States of America
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common