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humorless
adjective
Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
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It plays out kind of the same way.This sets up Mr Franken's joke about the likelihood of electing a Jewish president.Forget that he's humorless and pasty-looking.
The 33-year-old TV host offered no apology later, tweeting: "It's amazing how stupid & humorless some liberals can be".
She'd been a far more robust child than this one, and not as humorless or demanding.
It's not clever to treat women's need for affordable health care as a joke; nor is it humorless to get angry when a man talks that way.
Ten years passed; I watched "Garden State" again, and it was like paging through an old yearbook, enduring the humorless soul-searching, the emphatic quirkiness, and, in particular, such a precious depiction of New Jersey.
The senior Prescotts and Weiners will address this point of contention while making humorless, borderline insulting toasts about each other's children.
Onstage, he was foursquare and as clean as a whistle, and he struck a slightly humorless heroic pose.
He was a small, barrel-chested man with a reputation among my illustration-major friends as a tough teacher, humorless and completely dismissive of comics.
No one who claimed to prefer his books to his children ("A child is easily replaced") can have been that easy to love, and his journal adds to the insult, describing his own brood — he had six children by his second wife, Laura — as "feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless".
"It's not true that I have no sense of humor," Luce said to McKelway (who later told Thurber, "It was one of the most humorless remarks I'd ever heard").
Through a series of flashbacks, the narrator, an architect named Alex, lays out the story of his courtship of and marriage to the beautiful, humorless Sonia and his simultaneous, inexplicable relationship with an unattractive, devoutly Catholic Polish woman named Ivona, who is hopelessly in love with him.
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