expressionless love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking expression.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of expression.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of expression.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective without expression

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective deliberately impassive in manner

Etymologies

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expression +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It is characterized by an expressionless face, slow initiation of motor activity, loss of secondary movements (such as arm swing, which gives the patient a stiff, frozen appearance), and micrographia (handwriting becomes small and choppy).

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • Make your mouth straight not a smile, not a frown, just straight, what might used to have been called expressionless.

    Ascend Christian Bell 2011

  • It's just that ... you know how everyone still has an expression on their face even when they're so-called expressionless?

    I Hope To God I Never Turn Into That emu-head 2008

  • He read it, keeping his face expressionless, which is something you get used to when you work with John.

    Remember Me, Irene Jan Burke 1996

  • Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., despite his expressed concerns about a "political pep rally" with lawmakers "cheering and hollering" while the court just sits there "expressionless," nevertheless headed, sans pompoms, across First Street to attend.

    Hanging with the Justices at the SOTU Mixer Al Kamen 2011

  • Setting aside Justice Alito's rather unique take on the art of "expressionless," since when is it "very troubling" for the President to criticize the Court face-to-face during the State of the Union, but kosher for the Chief Justice to criticize the President in a speech on a campus in Alabama?

    James Sample: Roberts: Corporate $peech Good, Presidential Speech "Very Troubling" James Sample 2010

  • Setting aside Justice Alito's rather unique take on the art of "expressionless," since when is it "very troubling" for the President to criticize the Court face-to-face during the State of the Union, but kosher for the Chief Justice to criticize the President in a speech on a campus in Alabama?

    Roberts: Corporate $peech Good, Presidential Speech "Very Troubling" 2010

  • Setting aside Justice Alito's rather unique take on the art of "expressionless," since when is it "very troubling" for the President to criticize the Court face-to-face during the State of the Union, but kosher for the Chief Justice to criticize the President in a speech on a campus in Alabama?

    James Sample: Roberts: Corporate $peech Good, Presidential Speech "Very Troubling" 2010

  • When officials watched the CCTV footage, they found out what the "expressionless" boy had done.

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2008

  • Edward was gone, but Alice was still there in the dark, her face blank — the kind of expressionless look you see on the face of someone who has just witnessed a horrible accident.

    Eclipse Meyer, Stephenie 2007

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