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straight-faced

ADJECTIVE

deadpan

Synonyms

STRONGEST

impassive stony

WEAK

blank nobody home poker-faced serious unreadable vacant wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

histrionic warm

ADJECTIVE

expressionless

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deadpan impassive inscrutable vacant

WEAK

dead dull empty fish-eyed inexpressive lackluster lusterless nobody home poker-faced stolid stupid unexpressive vacuous wooden

Antonyms

WEAK

animated demonstrative expressive

ADJECTIVE

pokerfaced

Synonyms

WEAK

blank dead deadpan dull empty fish-eyed impassive inexpressive inscrutable lackluster lusterless nobody home poker-faced stolid stupid unexpressive vacant vacuous wooden

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Throughout the history of popular culture, there have been many answers to the question “What’s in the Box?”—the title of the new Netflix game show hosted by a barely straight-faced Neil Patrick Harris.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

But Schaffer’s take — not a new direction, but rather an ironically straight-faced reboot of the deadpan ZAZ style — supplies the well-trodden gag with a necessary contemporary jolt.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025

Instead, it’s just a very good Amin Joseph playing his scenes straight-faced.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

Seated between his lawyers, the 54-year-old Briton was calm and straight-faced as a judge read out the verdict.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

And he said it so straight-faced, but he had to be joking.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

straight-faced

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