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- adverb With a
straight face .
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Examples
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Sam, for his part, is straightfacedly lying to Dean aboutthe fate of Lilith, the whereabouts of Ruby, and his own use ofextranormal powers.
'Supernatural' season premiere: Back from hell | EW.com 2008
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Scriptwriter Andrew Davies even invented some bodice-ripping; he straightfacedly claims that Eliot's ghost "pestered" him to steam things up.
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We can only shake our heads at the kind of reporting that straightfacedly argues that "tensions will rise" if a pro-democracy politician is elected President.
CNN Channels Beijing in describing Lu Michael Turton 2007
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Years later, she and her friends were amazed to discover that it had spread to Nichols himself, who had evidently taken to straightfacedly repeating it to reporters.
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Somebody gets called a "terrorist" twice in this issue: Adrianna throws it as an insult at Black Adam, and Clark Kent straightfacedly mentions a crew of "Bahdnesian terrorists" who've stolen an ATV.
Week 10: You've Got Me? Who's Got You? Douglas Wolk 2006
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Somebody gets called a "terrorist" twice in this issue: Adrianna throws it as an insult at Black Adam, and Clark Kent straightfacedly mentions a crew of "Bahdnesian terrorists" who've stolen an ATV.
Archive 2006-07-01 Douglas Wolk 2006
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I had been used to Marigold for the four years since Martin had straightfacedly presented me to his buxom mother-in-law, a magnified version of his pretty wife.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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Nobody can straightfacedly say that any of the conciliar magisterium meets
RORATE CÆLI 2010
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And nobody else could get the networks to straightfacedly speculate on whether a golden coffin will be airlifted via helicopter for the big finale;
Salon Mary Elizabeth Williams 2009
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Given the advent of the more-girlfriend-friendly lads mags it’s difficult to straightfacedly argue you were buying Penthouse for the articles, but luckily my GF was happy I was actually buying it for the nudey rudey bits.
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