Example Sentences

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Despite their talent, ambition and dedication, both give off a false air of nonseriousness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022

If a serious person is running against a nonserious person, use their nonseriousness to define your seriousness.

From US News • Nov. 19, 2015

But more often, and almost exclusively by the 1990s, Mr. Nielsen showed up in movies, series and commercials, representing in his own archetypal silver-haired persona an ideal of genial, deadpan nonseriousness.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2010