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- adverb without expression; in an inexpressive manner
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Examples
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She looked inexpressively mischievous, high-spirited, fascinating.
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He sang coarsely and inexpressively throughout the performance, with blurry Italian pronunciation.
Archive 2008-07-01 Lisa Hirsch 2008
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He sang coarsely and inexpressively throughout the performance, with blurry Italian pronunciation.
Gypsies, Nobles, and Nuns Lisa Hirsch 2008
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So inexpressively that they cannot at first understand him; it is his old housekeeper who makes out what he wants and brings in a slate.
Bleak House 2007
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Mrs Hominy shook her head with a melancholy smile that said, not inexpressively, ‘They corrupt even the language in that old country!’ and added then, as coming down a step or two to meet his low capacity, ‘Where was you rose?’
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She was clearly surprised, but all they said was said low and inexpressively, because they were speaking out into the cool dark night.
The Voyage Out 2004
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These days, however, Susan Mitchell seemed inexpressively sad—so sad, in fact, that one wonders if clinical depression had not set in.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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In any event, he stared silently, inexpressively, at his subordinate for quite a few seconds, stared through steel-rimmed spectacles whose assiduously polished lenses gleamed as brightly as his bald spot.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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In any event, he stared silently, inexpressively, at his subordinate for quite a few seconds, stared through steel-rimmed spectacles whose assiduously polished lenses gleamed as brightly as his bald spot.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Worse, if the Director is as inventive as John Dexter, it can actually seem to minimize those ideas, just by flatly setting down on paper what was far from flat on the stage, and listing inexpressively details of his work which, in accumulation, became deeply expressive.
EQUUS Peter Shaffer 1974
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