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- adverb in combination With a particular kind of
face .
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Examples
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“Yes, in fact,” I said, straight-facedly, “I'm actually a descendant of Gondal.”
Ennui Christopher Snyder 2010
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I would love to see a Republican senator try to straight-facedly attack someone for a “poor record of minority recruitment.”
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I was bold-facedly trying to imitate Chandler, who I think is one of the greatest American writers of the century.
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Mr. Nielsen played a straight-facedly incompetent doctor, who at one point asks a fellow passenger to take over from the sick pilots and fly the plane.
Leslie Nielsen dies: "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" funnyman was 84 Emma Brown 2010
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No sooner had the charm offensive been launched than the government showed its true colors by defiantly reimposing a ban, which had been overturned by a federal court, on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and by straight-facedly proclaiming that all the stimulus spending has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs and is a huge success.
Fact And Comment 2010
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No sooner had the charm offensive been launched than the government showed its true colors by defiantly reimposing a ban, which had been overturned by a federal court, on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and by straight-facedly proclaiming that all the stimulus spending has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs and is a huge success.
Fact And Comment 2010
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No sooner had the charm offensive been launched than the government showed its true colors by defiantly reimposing a ban, which had been overturned by a federal court, on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and by straight-facedly proclaiming that all the stimulus spending has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs and is a huge success.
Fact And Comment 2010
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I would love to see a Republican senator try to straight-facedly attack someone for a “poor record of minority recruitment.”
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No sooner had the charm offensive been launched than the government showed its true colors by defiantly reimposing a ban, which had been overturned by a federal court, on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and by straight-facedly proclaiming that all the stimulus spending has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs and is a huge success.
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No sooner had the charm offensive been launched than the government showed its true colors by defiantly reimposing a ban, which had been overturned by a federal court, on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and by straight-facedly proclaiming that all the stimulus spending has saved or created upwards of 3.6 million jobs and is a huge success.
Fact And Comment 2010
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