humorless
Example Sentences
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With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
In "Mrs. Doubtfire," Sally Field played a humorless executive and absentee mom who failed to monitor her children.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
Rosendale is a self-defeating, humorless member of the House Freedom Caucus who cannot, in any form or fashion, mitigate his sharp Maryland accent.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2024
However relevant the stereotypical, silence-enforcing librarian remains in the popular imagination, Mychal Threets wants to dispel any lingering notion of the library as a dry, humorless place, lorded over by rigid pedants.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
