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Unexpressive   Listen
adjective
Unexpressive  adj.  
1.
Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive.
2.
Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. (Obs.) "Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she."





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"Unexpressive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Denmark, 4to., 7 parts, 1746: part 4th, a volume which abounds with a number of copper-plate engravings, worked off in a style of uncommon clearness and brilliancy. Some of the portraits themselves are rather stiff and unexpressive; but the vignettes are uniformly tasteful and agreeable. The seven parts are rarely found in ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... of murmuring. The usher cried "Silence!" and the murmuring ceased. A hush of expectation filled that crowded room as Baram Singh's eyes travelled slowly round the walls. He dropped them to the well of the court, and even his unexpressive face flashed with a ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason


Words linked to "Unexpressive" :   uncommunicative, expressionless, incommunicative


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