humour
noun
humourless
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a word derived from
humour.
Example Sentences
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When you're writing about topics this raw it's easy to slip into humourless sanctimony, but Walker's music is located in compassion, always finding nuggets of hope and happiness in the darkness.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
He may be empathetic and dogged but mostly he’s dour, humourless, dyspeptic, antisocial.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2020
But for some reason, variety hasn’t encouraged pluralism, and what we see instead is a battle over orthodoxies that is humourless by definition.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2019
The worst that they would be called is humourless.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2017
Their ardent and humourless democracy detected in him no taint of the patronizing or supercilious, and if he was new to the backwoods, he paid his arrears of knowledge with the ready coin of eagerness.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
