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Faced with a moping, stony-faced new partner, Beth did not selflessly set aside her own pain to help.

It exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.

Rey, after sitting for long hours in stony silence, eventually gave the police her last name.

Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.

Havel was a hero who shrugged off the title, understandably uncomfortable with the assumptions of stony perfection.

Why didn't he send a trooper to report at once instead of wasting time in going to Stony Crossing?

It took us all of the next day to make the trip to Stony Crossing and back by way of the place where Rutter was buried.

It ended in a broad open moor, stony; and full of damp boggy hollows, forlorn and desolate under the autumn sky.

The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.

Why did he quit the fruitful banks of the Euphrates for a spot so remote, so barren, and so stony as Sichem?

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stony, such as: expressionless, frigid, adamant, blank, callous, and chilly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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