Dead-pan

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Alternative form of deadpan..

Example Sentences

He stared for a few seconds, then asked with a dead-pan expression, “And some chiange?”

Jimbo had seen many drifters in all his years, and they all had that dead-pan look in their eyes.

It might be better to see the title almost as comic, in its dead-pan announcement of an Important Political Issue.

There was his left-hand head talking and sort of yapping that silly laugh of his, dead-pan, while the right-hand head was all creased up with giggle lines.

Dead-pan, he took down Matthew's broken explanations, shook his hand warmly, refused a drink and a plaster for his leg, and ran for the first public call-box as hard as he could go.

"Why would you think that?" asked Daisy, dead-pan.

They are the eerie half-human attendants at anything that is new on Broadway — the dead-pans of the Theatre Guild openings.

The older people have “Japanesey” dead-pans, whereas many of the American generation can display a great variety of emotions facially.

Synonyms for dead-pan

Antonyms for dead-pan

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Word Forms

• more dead-pan
• most dead-pan
• dead-pans
• dead-panning
• dead-panned

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