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deadpan
[ded-pan]
adjective
marked by or accomplished with a careful pretense of seriousness or calm detachment; impassive or expressionless.
deadpan humor.
displaying no emotional or personal involvement.
a deadpan style.
adverb
in a deadpan manner.
He spoke his lines utterly deadpan.
verb (used with or without object)
to behave or perform in a deadpan manner.
noun
a face showing no expression.
a style of comedy that relies on the comedian's maintaining such a face.
deadpan
/ ˈɛˌæ /
adjective
with a deliberately emotionless face or manner
deadpan humour
Other Word Forms
- dead panner noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
With howled, deadpan lyrics like on “Join in the Chant,” McCarthy set a template for how punk’s urgency could lock into dance music’s meticulousness.
“Well, I think you can see by nameplate, you can tell that they weren’t expecting us,” Savage deadpanned.
"I'd like to remind the room that The Edge the first one to break up this band," he deadpans.
“Is that unusual?” he deadpanned when a reporter noted the observation Thursday.
There’s a heightened, deadpan tone to everyone’s acting in an Anderson picture, and while the actor immersed himself, there’s no lack of truth to what Korda is feeling.
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