unserious
adjective
un·se·ri·ous
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Definition of unserious
: not serious
unserious writers unserious debates … recognize the difference between serious and unserious warnings.— Meg Greenfield
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Or the news alerts that seem to make the very idea of jokes unserious or unseemly? — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, "Nell Zink’s Satire Raises the Stakes," 26 Aug. 2019 So how does a serious thing — radio waves from a dead star in the service of a suicide’s art — resonate faithfully in deeply unserious times? — Zachary Lipez, Washington Post, "How Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ image went from underground album cover to a piece of cultural ubiquity," 14 June 2019 But blunt proposals such as canceling debt — to the tune of $1.6 trillion — or offering free college are laughably unserious. — Robert Gebelhoff, Twin Cities, "Robert Gebelhoff: Yes, I want to pay off my student loans," 30 June 2019 But blunt proposals such as canceling debt – to the tune of $1.6 trillion – or offering free college are laughably unserious. — Robert Gebelhoff, The Denver Post, "Commentary: Yes, I want to pay off my student loans, but these relief plans aren’t serious," 26 June 2019 Yet as with his later diplomacy, his journalism was fundamentally unserious. — The Economist, "What Europe thinks of Boris Johnson," 21 June 2019 That the myth’s wisecracking originator could soon be Prime Minister shows how fundamentally unserious British politics has become since then. — Jonathan Coe, Time, "How Brexit Broke Britain and Revealed a Country at War With Itself," 6 June 2019 The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution. — Bridget Read, Vogue, "GOP Senator Mike Lee Says Very Real, Terrifying Climate-Change Problem Should Be Solved by . . . Babies," 26 Mar. 2019 Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have been just as unserious. — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, "End This Stupid Shutdown," 10 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unserious.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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