0 in an awkward way or showing no expression: --
She nodded woodenly, her body still numb from the shock.
He had done so woodenly, reading his revised statement from a piece of paper.
When an emotion is to be expressed, it comes across stridently, or woodenly.
He sits there, listens to them woodenly and does nothing at the end.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
woodenly
