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- verb Present participle of
deadpan .
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Examples
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Fellow Boston College alum Chris Snee seemingly took it in stride Friday, deadpanning first that he didn't sleep all night and then saying, "No one cares what B.J. had to say."
Giants Packing Confidence Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012
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Sometimes it's refreshing when the musical act at a concert doesn't take itself too seriously -- unabashedly begging people to buy their CD, or after making a joke that bombs, deadpanning, "That was supposed to be funny, y'all."
In concert: Joey and Rory at The Carlyle Club Click Track 2010
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Chico -- originally pronounced "Chick-O," as in "chick chaser"-- played the piano brilliantly, effortlessly and hilariously when he wasn't busy deadpanning such lines as "I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
Michael Sigman: Hello, the Marx Brothers Must Be Coming Michael Sigman 2011
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Chico -- originally pronounced "Chick-O," as in "chick chaser"-- played the piano brilliantly, effortlessly and hilariously when he wasn't busy deadpanning such lines as "I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
Michael Sigman: Hello, the Marx Brothers Must Be Coming Michael Sigman 2011
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Oh, and a note to Steven Colbert, the fur comes from living cats, despite your deadpanning in a recent interview at our labs.
New vacuum cleaner Ratings: Our pet-hair test gets tuft 2010
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But even as Coughlin walked with a noticeable limp Monday, and said his morning runs will have to be curtailed, he joked about it his condition too, deadpanning that Ware was "no longer with the team" and laughing at the idea he'd bother with an MRI.
Tuck Awakens and So Do the Giants Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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There were many hilarious moments in that show, but Jack Soo as Yemana deadpanning “Anybody seen my legs?” still cracks me up all these years later.
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But he and Downey clearly clicked during the making of Iron Man 2, when they were deadpanning with each other in what he describes as a kind of witty "onedownmanship".
After 10 years 'Larry Sanders' is back Joanna Walters in New York 2010
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Nick Saban cracked a few jokes and even some smiles, deadpanning about the players 'poor execution of his celebratory Gatorade bath ....
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But let's face it, TV sport was in an impossible position this weekend, forced to go about its business like some besieged colonial viceroy grimly deadpanning his way through the mutton course – pouring more wine, remarking on the state of the roads – while outside a firestorm of insurgent artillery demolishes his Palladian fortifications, the chandelier collapses into the cheese plate and the sun is blotted out by mustard gas.
Rolling World Cup nostalgia is the only sporting show in town 2010
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