out of humor
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Paer tried to create a more Mozartian take that dips in and out of humor and seriousness.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2017
The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed."
From Time Magazine Archive
But his acquaintance with Indians and Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
“No, this is what I want, but it is my misfortune instead to be hungry, out of humor, and too stupid to be a midwife’s apprentice.”
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
Hannah was out of humor because her week’s work was deranged, and prophesied that “ef the washin’ and ironin’ warn’t done reg’lar, nothin’ would go well anywheres”.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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