Word info

stone-faced

Adjective

Meaning

stone-faced (comparative more stone-faced, superlative most stone-faced)

(chiefly US) Synonym of stony-faced

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero. Source: Internet

A serious, stone-faced samurai and a supremely skilled swordsman whom Katsushirō is in awe of. Source: Internet

He was stone-faced and kept his hands behind his back as roughly 120 prospective jurors entered a courtroom to fill out questionnaires for the trial, which they were told should last 2-1/2 weeks. Source: Internet

The monastic vow of silence is solemn and unforgiving; we linger in a moment of silence to commemorate grim events; we punish each other for transgressions by responding to earnest entreaties with stone-faced silence. Source: Internet

It's a strip mall corner shop EWP staffed by a couple of cooks from Durango and a stone-faced auntie who sits behind the cash register. Source: Internet

Most officers stayed stone-faced, but one, who carried a nightstick under his arm, winked and made kissing noises at a woman who was filming and accusing police by name of “snatching black and brown bodies.” Source: Internet

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