Example Sentences

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Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2026

Part of what will make the fast-approaching Oedipal primary season so damned entertaining is the relative humorlessness of people like Mr. DeSantis and Mrs. Haley.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2023

A kill-shelter tour would definitely be heartbreaking but that’s beside the point: When you can’t make a dog joke on Montana Avenue, it’s a sure sign that America’s epidemic of humorlessness has come to town.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2020

You begin to wonder how his humorlessness will wear over time.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2020

But then, too, his eyes had a dull, black humorlessness about them.

From The Scapegoat by Maples, Richard