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po-faced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
po-faced
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And if that sounds a bit po-faced, then you're missing the point.
▪ And she added something po-faced about toleration and talent.
▪ It was really slow and a bit po-faced for me.
▪ Jenkins was at his most po-faced here.
▪ Let's hope advertisers get the message and give us more laughs and less po-faced hype in future.
▪ The writer's po-faced style occasionally irritates: do people really need reminding that cases of bubonic plague should be treated immediately?
▪ Their smiles were like a knowing wink: sussed and street-wise without being in the least dour or po-faced.
Wiktionary
po-faced

a. 1 (context British English) Wearing a particularly stern and disapprove expression; humourless; priggish. 2 (context British English) poker-faced.

WordNet
po-faced

adj. humorless and disapproving

Usage examples of "po-faced".

I don't want to spend thirty years being a glorified commissioned clerk, or marry some po-faced whiskey-swilling mercenary and breed a litter of officerlets.

But it was hard to look po-faced at a kid having fun, especially with a close friend's daughter who'd been in and out of your house all her life.

But it was hard to look po-faced at a kid having fun, especially with a close friend’s daughter who’d been in and out of your house all her life.

But Egremont no longer mattered -- he lived in a different world, now, with his po-faced respectable wife, and his respectable children, and his respectable seat in Parliament.

But Egremont no longer mattered—he lived in a different world, now, with his po-faced respectable wife, and his respectable children, and his respectable seat in Parliament.