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  • adverb in combination With a particular kind of face.

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Examples

  • “Yes, in fact,” I said, straight-facedly, “I'm actually a descendant of Gondal.”

    Ennui Christopher Snyder 2010

  • I would love to see a Republican senator try to straight-facedly attack someone for a “poor record of minority recruitment.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Closing in on a Court Pick 2010

  • I was bold-facedly trying to imitate Chandler, who I think is one of the greatest American writers of the century.

    An Interview with Robert Parker 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I would love to see a Republican senator try to straight-facedly attack someone for a “poor record of minority recruitment.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Closing in on a Court Pick 2010

  • 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.

    Obama's Soft-Core Socialism 2010

  • 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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