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She listened to both arguments thoughtfully, but with a face as stolid as a cow's.stolid = emotionless
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Her face showed nothing but stolid indifference.
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She has a stolid, humorless personality.
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Above them was the ceiling, and it was the ceiling Laila was drawn to, the dark markings of mold spreading across it like ink on a dress, the crack in the plaster that was a stolid smile or a frown, depending on which end of the room you looked at it from. (source)stolid = unmoving
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"Finch," Mr. Tate said stolidly, "Bob Ewell fell on his knife." (source)stolidly = with little emotion
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With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, (source)stolid = unemotional
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Was I finally a good West Virginian, all stoic and stolid, filled everlastingly to my chin with guilt but not capable of showing it? (source)stolid = revealing little emotion
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Jonathan Ashby stood stolidly beside Mercy, waiting for his chance to be the rescuer. (source)stolidly = unemotional and dependable
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The stolidity of the German woman underwent a sudden change. (source)stolidity = state of not showing emotion
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She got so she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference. (source)stolidness = lack of emotionstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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She was trying to feed her illusion of adventure by staring at unfamiliar houses ...drab cottages, artificial stone bungalows, square painty stolidities with immaculate clapboards and broad screened porches and tidy grass-plots.† (source)
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for the first time he knew the stolid, stubborn indifference of the inanimate. (source)stolid = unemotional (not movable emotionally)
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"That's a direct order, Miss Boon," said the Agent stolidly. (source)stolidly = having or revealing little emotion
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The stolidity with which I received these instructions was, no doubt, rather exasperating: for they were delivered in perfect sincerity; but I believed a person who could plan the turning of her fits of passion to account, beforehand, might, by exerting her will, manage to control herself tolerably, even while under their influence; and I did not wish to 'frighten' her husband, as she said, and multiply his annoyances for the purpose of serving her selfishness. (source)stolidity = lack of emotion
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The men walking in front and the laden, stolid women following them like burros. (source)stolid = unemotional
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Fernando said stolidly. (source)stolidly = having or revealing little emotion
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