humourless
- a word derived from humour.
Example Sentences
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"Part of the consideration was refusing to yield to this idea that everything must be sober and humourless to be authentic at all," says Greaves.
From BBC • May 19, 2023
He may be empathetic and dogged but mostly he’s dour, humourless, dyspeptic, antisocial.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2020
He was supposedly there to give Bond a hard and gritty new seriousness, but always just looked a bit humourless.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018
The culture was being hijacked by college students, humourless young people who knew nothing of real life, its paradoxes and disappointments.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 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 Conrey, Lee F.
