stolid

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  1. adjective Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive: "the incredibly massive and stolid bureaucracy of the Soviet system” (John Kenneth Galbraith).

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  • “You know it, too Yes, I can.” She fought to keep her expression stolid, yet tears welled in the corners of her eyes. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2007
  • From the label a stolid farmer smiled at her, the image as outdated as the 1950s Betty Crocker. —  The Empty Chair
  • Even in staid, stolid, and prudent Iceland, the government has been forced to intervene to prop up a bank. —  All articles at Blogcritics
  • In 1920 Watson secured access to a "healthy, stolid, and unemotional" nine-month-old infant named Albert B., the son of a wet nurse who worked in the hospital. —  Damn Interesting
  • Walpole bore his position with a kind of patience which might be called either proud or stolid, according as one is pleased to look at it. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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  1. Latin stolidus, stupid; see stel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish estólido = Portuguese estolido = Italian stolido, from Latin stolidus, unmovable, slow, dull, stupid; prob. akin to Greek στερεός.
 

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