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po-faced

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po-faced
adj
(of a person) wearing a disapproving stern expression
[possibly from po + poker-faced]
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Adj.1.po-faced - humorless and disapproving
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
humorless, humourless, unhumorous - lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote
po-faced
adjective humourless, disapproving, solemn, prim, puritanical, narrow-minded, stolid, prudish, strait-laced a politically-correct bastion of po-faced self-righteousness
Translations
po-faced [ˌpəʊˈfeɪst] ADJ → que mira con desaprobación, severo
po-faced
adj (inf: = disapproving) → grimmig, mürrisch; a po-faced woman (= ugly) → eine Schrulle (inf)
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delivered po-faced and precise by a splendid company.
Shakespeare's worlds apart; Reviews by Birmingham Mail (England)
Byline: Paul Routledge PO-FACED bosses at the Advertising Standards Authority have banned beer posters of a man plucking up courage to tell a woman her bum looks big in a purple dress.
Beer drinkers need bottle by The Mirror (London, England)
We have endured po-faced politicians and city executives avoiding to mention that this state of affairs was predicted over a century ago by Karl Marx as a result of ruthless pursuit of profit.
Letter: City slickers by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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