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Recent Examples of affectless The use of an A.I. program to replicate Warhol’s flat, affectless speech to read the diary entries had a strangely fitting logic. Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022 His paintings borrowed aspects of photographic vision (arbitrary cropping, dissonant overlap) and even photographic sensibility (cool, affectless, mechanical). Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021 Mumblecore veteran Sheil, with her Raphaelite curtain of hair and almost affectless voice, can be an opaque heroine, and the plot, as far as there is one, feels halting at first, the dialogue choppy and unreal. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 30 July 2020 Johnny Flynn’s affectless monotone was crisp, clear, and cheery. Adrienne So, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 See All Example Sentences for affectless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affectless
Adjective
  • As a member of a crew that robs banks, Mr. Blonde is the most ruthless.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • President Donald Trump has mounted a ruthless onslaught on the checks and balances established in the Constitution.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Guthrie, her fiancé, took to casually goading Loeb about how Twysden now spurned him, while Loeb accepted the insults with a stoic passivity, mooning over Twysden, the others felt, like a lovesick puppy.
    Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025
  • His Superman is also very passionate and vocal, breaking from the traditionally stoic hero.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • There's also an interesting shot toward the end of the trailer with Ben Grimm sporting what appears to be a stony beard as the Human Torch carries him.
    Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • His stony reaction to the red card in the moment did not betray any sense of injustice.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • From Hollywood's Golden Age and the '70s catastrophe obsession to today, these films have unearthed every pitiless corner of nature's wrath, from towering tsunamis and viral pandemics to all-out apocalypses and more.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • They were born out of a pitiless epidemic, as a poignant yet futile attempt to allow his subjects to live forever on film.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • For those still experiencing the oppressive heat, here are some tips for how to find your own bit of relief.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • But what is a heat dome, and why does the phenomenon bring oppressive heat with it?
    Denise Chow, NBC news, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Perhaps no human artist could tolerate producing such soulless lackluster, but an AI is unburdened by shame.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 July 2025
  • Adler pointed out that even soulless computer programs can happen to work in certain ways and have certain tendencies.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 June 2025

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“Affectless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectless. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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