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Recent Examples of affectless Skarsgård does well with the character’s daytime ambiguity (tight-faced, affectless) and nighttime plotting (observant, physically lithe). Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022 And the key to the mystery — not the solution to it but the dark center of it — is Swinton Byrne’s quiet, reserved, at times almost affectless performance. New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021 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 See All Example Sentences for affectless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affectless
Adjective
  • Zimmer also received an Emmy nod for her portrayal of ruthless executive Quinn King on Unreal (2015–2018).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And in short stories and doorstops, her attention is ruthless and unflinching.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Bieber isn’t like some stoic pitchers.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In Start of Watch, Harry Bosch, a intensely observant, stoic and unyielding young man, is a probationary patrol officer with the LAPD.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Chat members were merciless in their rhetoric against fellow Young Republicans in competing factions of the organization.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Next is 4-2 Mississippi State at home, the closest thing to a reprieve left on this merciless schedule.
    Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Give her the chance to play pathos, and Squibb can crack your stony heart in half.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • According to the Earth Impact Effects Program calculator, developed by Imperial College in London, U.K., a stony asteroid the size of 2025 FA22 could cause a crater 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) wide.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The film’s only real villain is Al Pacino, doing a Colonel Sanders accent as Richard’s father M.L. Hall, whose pitiless rigidity stands in for capitalism as a whole.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Each failure rekindled the gravitational pull of an existential, pitiless struggle.
    Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • After a summer of oppressive heat, October is when New York City hits its stride.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Raducanu had her blood pressure taken during the match, which was played in oppressive heat and humidity, before retiring down 6-1, 4-1.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Affectless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectless. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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