adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dry/deadpan humour (= when someone makes it seem as if they are being serious, but really they are being funny )
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His serious demeanour lends itself to deadpan humour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"We're out of gas, so I guess you'll have to walk home," he said, giving me a deadpan expression.
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a deadpan expression
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Garcia turns in another soulful-eyed but deadpan performance.
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The third lady who wants more than lunch is Bowles, who describes their flight from convention in deadpan style.
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This, and the fact that Mike was a competitor, seemed to get Dmitri edgy: his face went entirely deadpan .