Meaning & use
deadpanned
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Said something in a serious, expressionless way, especially for comic effect.
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"I love Mondays," he deadpanned, rolling his eyes.
She deadpanned the punchline so well that half the room missed the joke.
A note on using this word
"Deadpan" combines "dead," meaning expressionless, with "pan," old slang for the face, a usage popularized by early film comedians like Buster Keaton.
Words with a similar meaning
quipped drylysaid flatly
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