deadpan
Example Sentences
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“Well, someone has to do the first draft of my obituary,” Jack deadpanned.
“I looked at that scene and went, yeah, that’s going to get people talking,” she deadpans in the HBO offices one January afternoon, before breaking out into a giggle.
From Los Angeles Times
“We do not care if we still wear skinny jeans — they stretch and they’re comfortable,” she reads, deadpan.
From Los Angeles Times
“End of Beginning” doesn’t appear in the show, but Keery is a perennial fan favorite, thanks to his gravity-defying hair and deadpan one-liners.
“It’s part of our job now,” she deadpanned.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
