stony

variants also stoney
as in stern
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings the judge's stony demeanor didn't raise the defendant's hopes for a more lenient sentence

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“Stony.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stony. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.

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