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
"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
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
There are all kinds, mostly the seriously inspired and humourless variety who makes a mystic religion of a very respectable profession.
From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
