humorless
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for humorless
Synonyms
earnest, grave, no-nonsense, po-faced [British], sedate, serious, severe, sober, sobersided, solemn, staid, uncomic, unsmiling, weighty
Antonyms
facetious, flip, flippant, humorous, jesting, jocular, joking, kittenish, ludic, playful
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Examples of humorless in a Sentence
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The Cullinan has the humorless face of a locomotive. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV: a royal rite of passage," 2 Aug. 2019 That the term doesn’t exist says less about mothers’ senses of humor, which are just as corny as fathers’, than about restrictive gender roles that cast women as humorless disciplinarians. — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, "A Dad Defends Dad Jokes," 12 June 2019 The Woodward book is best understood as an antidote to a humorless and self-righteous press’s overintepretation of the Trump phenomenon. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "We’re Surviving Trump Just Fine," 7 Sep. 2018 Ultimately, some robots will be charming and fun, others designed to do their task with humorless efficiency. — David Pierce, WSJ, "The Robot Revolution Is Coming, and Dang Is It Cute," 28 Oct. 2018 The film is also remembered for Bond's fight with humorless former KGB agent Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who tries to dispatch Bond with poison in the toe of her shoe. — Charles Stockdale And John Harrington, USA TODAY, "Every James Bond film ranked from worst to best," 18 June 2018 Critics jumped all over the idea, labeling the women hairy-legged and humorless. — Karen Heller, Washington Post, "The year women refused to stay silent, tossed their bras and redefined politics," 23 May 2018 Over many years of being quirky and accessible in a largely humorless profession, Leach has managed to develop a cult of personality that enjoys his random musings on dinosaurs and pirates. — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, "Mike Leach's tweet of an anti-Obama hoax showed why many schools won't hire him," 18 June 2018 Murphy plays the character as a suitably humorless waif, a fair match in zealotry, dumb cunning and cat-fancying sentimentality for the swaggering Padraic. — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, "'The Lieutenant of Inishmore': Theater Review," 5 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'humorless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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