humorless

Example Sentences

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With a short season, smaller scope and much lighter tone, this could be the welcome antidote to the humorless, plodding “HotD,” and get Westeros fans excited again.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

Julianne Moore is his mother, a humorless scold whose coldness and impatience are seemingly understandable, as her son is such an insufferable boor.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2024

Rosendale is a self-defeating, humorless member of the House Freedom Caucus who cannot, in any form or fashion, mitigate his sharp Maryland accent.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

It gives the impression that people are more irrational, humorless and sensitive than in the past.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2023

They began to invent humorless, glum jokes of their own and disastrous rumors about the destruction awaiting them at Bologna.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller