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comparative more deadpan, superlative most deadpan
Deliberately impassive or expressionless. examples
Having such a face or look. examples
In a deadpan manner. quotations examples
A city-hired consultant from a firm called Urban Futures was booed repeatedly by the agitated homeowners as he talked deadpan, in bureaucratese, about his firm's "evidentiary record" pointing to blight in the neighborhood.
2004, Steven Greenhut, Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain
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A style of comedic delivery in which something humorous is said or done while not exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. quotations examples
MAREK: But really the deadpan is key. You can essentially trick people into laughing at nothing.
2007, Meredith Gran, Octopus Pie #71: Deadpan
third-person singular simple present deadpans, present participle deadpanning, simple past and past participle deadpanned
To express (oneself) in an impassive or expressionless manner. quotations examples
Kidd deadpanned it, stared glassily back at Maitland.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 496