Sentence examples for mirthless joke from inspiring English sources

What will endure is an irate billionaire mogul's ability to potentially close a media organisation he doesn't like – for the fantastically cheap (to him) price of $10m in legal fees – and the mirthless joke of his calling it "philanthropy".

During that most barbarous of conflicts, the opposing Russian and German commanders both developed nervous conditions, while the house-to-house fighting was so grimly incremental among the rubble of the city that the mirthless joke among the Germans was that they'd taken the kitchen but were still fighting for the living room.

There were mirthless jokes about peers whose kids had been admitted by the colleges caught up in the scandal.

King Lear was stupid, all verbiage, unnatural, unintelligible, bombastic, vulgar, tedious, full of wild ravings and mirthless jokes.

The movie is thin and tepid... "What Planet Are You From?" offers a great many jokes about sex without itself being very sexual — it's a little dry, a little distant, and, after a while, as the mirthless jokes pile up and the vibrating whatsit is heard for the tenth time, the movie seems a smug and awfully safe way of talking dirty.

She gives a mirthless laugh.

She lets out a mirthless laugh.

He lets out a mirthless laugh.

"Plus a million supporters," he adds, with a mirthless laugh.

"Oh no," he replies, with a mirthless laugh.

"We laugh, but it's a mirthless laugh".