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with a straight face
adverb as in seriously
Strongest matches
Strong match
Example Sentences
“With a straight face, the ‘believe the science’ guys will say ‘actually, we don’t yet have enough data to say whether men and boys are stronger and faster than women and girls’.
It’s just a straw man that Oldham dreamed up to defend ghost gun buyers—whom he depicted, with a straight face, as noble, “law-abiding” gunsmiths partaking in a grand American “tradition of self-made arms.”
“They must have known that the big Democratic boogey man ‘Project 2025’ has nothing to do with Donald Trump or his campaign,” Murray wrote, presumably with a straight face.
“It tastes like basic fruit juice. I can hardly taste the vodka. I think it’s mid,” she said with a straight face.
All of this legal madness underscores the absurdity, hypocrisy, and arrogance that was on full display by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, who with a straight face told the conventioneers: “We in the Republican Party are the law-and-order team.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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