unhumorous

Example Sentences

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In the greatest of ironies, it is the mostly unhumorous Richard Dawkins who gave us the word “meme”, which he coined in his 1976 work The Selfish Gene.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2019

“He provides much-needed humor in an otherwise unhumorous time. I’ve never heard of that before in covering any legislature.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018

The producers could have created the illusion that the show is 12.5 percent less unhumorous than it really is by springing open cans of mirth at opportune moments, but the timing is off.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2011

Indignation is the work of the late-late Roth, the Roth of bitter, bitten-off miniatures like Everyman and Exit Ghost: curt, tetchy, unhumorous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indomitable, remorseless, unhumorous, proud, the pose of the body was absolutely, one felt, the justest possible.

From The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Walpole, Hugh, Sir