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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stony-faced
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A stony-faced Barnes retreated behind the scenery.
▪ A stony-faced Mr Mugabe came in an open-roofed Bentley.
▪ Dad gazed with stony-faced approval at the walnut dash, jewelled with clocks and dials.
▪ Instead, his two stony-faced sisters, who had never approved of him, led the mourners with their husbands.
▪ Normally, any ordinary citizen subject to dropped charges would receive a stony-faced apology and the opportunity to leave via the public foyer.
Wiktionary
stony-faced

a. Showing no (or little) expression of emotion; poker-faced.

Usage examples of "stony-faced".

Outside, Nerissa stood beside a stony-faced Lucien, trying to feign happiness for the sake of the newlyweds but looking as though she was ready to start weeping at any moment.

London, stony-faced, went to the monitors, where Goss sat with the earphones around his neck.

Afterward, Rastar, stony-faced as only a Mardukan could be, showed them the battle-stained flag of the Basik's Own.

The usual banquet fare: fruit salad, consomme, protosoy fillet, steam-table peas and carrots, flagons of California Burgundy, lumpy baked Alaska, everything served with maximum clatter and minimum grace by stony-faced members of downtrodden minority groups.

A line of demonstrators ringed Yountz Center, the heart of Yanakov Park, like stony-faced vultures, ignoring the taunts and jibes flung at them by a small crowd of native Harringtons.

At Heklos's office, the lieutenant, stony-faced, told the general what Lanks had said, being careful not to look at the lord regent.