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straight face

NOUN
  1. a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement

How To Use straight face In A Sentence

  • I tried so hard to keep a straight face but I just couldn't I went from anger to frustration to fear to indifference.
  • I keep a straight face and the composure of a chemist dispensing a prescription.
  • Welcome to November, a month that people take a little bit too seriously, a month of melancholy and corduroy, and the only time of year you'll hear New Yorkers utter the word "succotash" with a straight face on the crosstown bus …. Eight Day Week
  • Andy looked at her trying to keep a straight face but failed horridly as he laughed outright at her.
  • Waxman can berate them for it all he wants, they can go up there and say with a straight face that their lawyers absolutely said they must do so and that Waxman is free to provide them with a contrary legal opinion if he likes. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
  • She looked so ridiculous it was hard to keep a straight face.
  • Taitz, who believes that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is building internment camps to house anti-Obama activists and that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez controls the software that runs American voting machines, makes for undeniably good television: She looks like a young Carol Channing, sounds like an overexcited Zsa Zsa Gabor, and has the ability to make absurd accusations with a completely straight face. The Panic Virus
  • This is so much balderdash that you wonder how it can be repeated with a straight face.
  • But luckily, because we rehearsed it for five solid days before we performed it for an audience, we got used to the funniness of it and were able to keep a straight face.
  • It is amazing the PM can maintain this charade with a straight face. The Sun
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