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How to use humorless in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Humorless means lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted. Example: “He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.”

Examples of humorless by meaning

adjectiveLacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.

  • He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
  • At the risk of seeming humorless, we would like to point out some problems with the "bisexuality" insurance cartoon which appeared in the April Fool's issue of GCN.1983 April 23, The BiVocals, “Gay-Identified Bisexuals”, in Gay Community News, page 4

More sentences with humorless

  • Zero brains for this tasteless, classless, humorless, scareless pile of wasted film.2016, Andy McKinney, A Gross of Zombies: Reviews of 144 Zombie Movies. From the entry scareless
  • He'd video-streamed a segment of last night's drunken henfest in the kitchen to Haupt, but the humorless had prick been unamused.2009, Shannon McKenna, Tasting Fear, page 32. From the entry henfest
  • Because of their politically sourful and humorless attitudes, the most frequently targeted political groups were conservatives and Republicans.1979, Joseph Boskin, Humor and social change in twentieth-century America, page 96. From the entry sourful
  • Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times. From the entry antifeminism
  • Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times. From the entry shusher
  • The women of the movement, it struck me, were more humorless and more single-minded in their total dedication to the ideology than were the men.1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 570. From the entry abrasive
  • There is plenty of commentary, even among users of other platforms, about how Threads is bloodless (and owned by Mark Zuckerberg), Mastodon is inscrutable, and Bluesky is humorless.2025 May 23, Charlie Warzel, “What Are People Still Doing on X?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry bloodless
  • Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.2006, Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense, page xiv. From the entry robot

Meaning of humorless

  1. adjective Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.

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Questions about humorless in a sentence

How do you use humorless in a sentence?
Humorless is used as an adjective. For example: “He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.”
What is a short sentence with humorless?
“He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.”
What does humorless mean?
Humorless means lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.

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