All 4 Uses of
stolid
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "I've been waiting for you for the last hour, Krassotkin," said Smurov stolidly, and the boys strode towards the market-place.†
Chpt 10 *
- "A black nose, that means he'll be fierce, a good house-dog," Kolya observed gravely and stolidly, as if the only thing he cared about was the puppy and its black nose.†
Chpt 10
- Smerdyakov was stolidly silent for a while.†
Chpt 11
- The two merchants looked respectable, but were strangely silent and stolid.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(stolid) having or revealing little emotion -- sometimes indicating qualities of not changing or being dependable
or (much more rarely):
of an object: not interesting -- often large and unmoving