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

It would be campy if it weren't so humorless.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 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

He looked too alien, too sterile, too humorless.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix