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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
  • Tracey recalls how her ruthless daughter sought revenge on her father, classmates and Laura.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In the epic Emperor Kisra (Kingsley) has a reputation for being utterly ruthless.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • His sibling, Jem (Sean Bean), has traveled to the small shed that his stoic, hermit-like brother calls home.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
  • He was introduced as the silent, stoic bodyguard for MJF, a role that eventually led to one of the most celebrated babyface turns in the company's history.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • If Hollow Knight was demanding, Silksong is merciless.
    Keller Gordon, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In 1918, Bolshevik secret police forced Anastasia Romanov and her imperial family into a damp basement to face a merciless firing squad.
    Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Its stony soil and cool climate produce lower yields, but more expressive flavors, especially in chardonnay, pinot noir, and sparkling wines.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • No expensive meter running that is racking up hefty bills and stony fees.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 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
  • Its pace is slow — occasionally, but rarely, to its detriment — but this clearly deliberate tempo gives you the chance to shoulder the burdens of its oppressive atmosphere and settle into its many puzzles, which regularly trade logic for personal interpretation, and occasionally just vibes.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This process includes questioning the logics and myths that uphold the status quo and calling out oppression as part of the struggle toward an anti-oppressive future.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Affectless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affectless. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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