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
So it is with regret that I must embrace my identity as a humourless homosexual and explain, in a not-so-hot take, why this story is problematic.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2019
The resulting film was not considered a success, with one critic dismissing it as "a shambolic, deafening, intelligence-insulting mess" and another dubbing it "a confused, humourless grind."
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2018
The early readings are also worth notice, because they partially explain, by their occasionally fantastic and humourless character, the lack of early and general recognition of the poet's genius.
From Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang
