humourless
- 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
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
The worst that they would be called is humourless.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2017
And so egoistic in his judgment is the average man that he is apt to suspect of being humourless any one whose sense of humour squares not with his own.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
