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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
expressionless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ She stared at him with a stiff, expressionless face.
▪ Everyone I talked to thought that it put his generally expressionless face to shame.
▪ He was a short, dry man, with a square, expressionless face, between forty and fifty years old.
▪ What volcano of emotion must have been boiling inside that youngster under his teasing and laughing, under his occasionally expressionless face?
▪ Roxie Farmer was still sitting in the police car, looking out at them with an expressionless face.
▪ The two uniformed highway patrolmen stared at him with expressionless faces.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ dark expressionless eyes
▪ Oswini was watching her with expressionless eyes.
▪ Terry's face was expressionless as he listened to the report.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was Iranildo's job to lift the ball over the expressionless defence and to find the top corner of the net.
▪ She stared at him with a stiff, expressionless face.
▪ She went back as she had come, fast asleep and docile, her face expressionless.
▪ So she sat, expressionless, immobile, trying to fight the anger as her gut ached for her husband.
▪ Their faces are expressionless, their eyes betray little, if any, interest in being in school.
▪ They watched me even more carefully, their eyes expressionless, waiting.
▪ While the left half of my face remains regular and animated, the right half droops, flat and expressionless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expressionless

Expressionless \Ex*pres"sion*less\, a. Destitute of expression.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expressionless

1831, "giving no expression," from expression + -less. Shelley used it with a sense of "unexpressed" (1819).

Wiktionary
expressionless

a. without expression

WordNet
expressionless

adj. deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read" [syn: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive]

Usage examples of "expressionless".

Once enfolded in the foggy embrace, Ambry drooped limply, his face lax and expressionless.

He looked questioningly at the Margravine, but her face was expressionless.

Luzhin meanwhile fixed his motionless and expressionless gaze on an eggshell-white plaque with a black inscription, Veritas, but Valentinov immediately swept him farther and lowered him into an armchair of the club variety that was even more tenacious and quaggy than the car seat.

Corbin Strock merely nodded, looked into her face often and kept his own expressionless.

Ray Buttonwood shook his head, as if despairing, but his face remained expressionless.

It found an updraft and drifted with it, wings spread and motionless, then paused in front of him, floating, a white beautiful set of wings, a sardonic cynical head with downcurved mouth and expressionless inspecting eyes.

Richard Dunst to arrange a meeting between Lynn and the bald, expressionless man who had always given her the creeps.

Miss Cook blushing and clutching Laurie to her bosom with both hands, an order from George having been required to secure her so, expressionless Sophie likewise clutching Astoria.

Fog cannot muffle the hoots of bikers, but it may give comfort to expressionless Chinese who recoil before the jollity of the street where people in Fat Lady costumes, and Fat Man costumes, dance jiggly beside young girls.

I knew just by seeing her and hearing her weak, expressionless voice that she was in bad shape.

Caryll, unaided now, completed the resumption of his garments, Leduc, silent and expressionless, submitted to being searched.

He looked over the side of the bridge, stared down into the Oerlikon gunpit, then looked away, his lace expressionless.

Christ as Pantokrator, the Paraclete or Intercessor, the stylized face expressionless, the enormous powerful eyes staring down at them.

It might have been human once, but now it was covered with gray scales like the rets, flat and expressionless, its green eyes compressed into narrow slits that regarded him with such coldness that he forgot all about the wolf creature.

All throughout, Warburg had sat, fixing him with a flat, expressionless stare.