unamusing

Example Sentences

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Pinball first captivated the spare-change-having masses during the otherwise unamusing Great Depression, then surged again after World War II with the game-changing advent of the flipper.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2013

The Other Guys needs to recapture the zany verve of Anchorman before he goes the criminally unamusing way of other Saturday Night Live alumni such as Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2010

Two teams of celebrities, some of whom you might just about have heard of, sail around Britain's south coast in various vessels, making unamusing quips and uninteresting observations.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2010

Seen with a modern eye, Sandby’s satirical etchings are unamusing and the texts intended to be witty seem immature in their crudeness.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2010

A microscopic, but not unamusing, social life was in full swing.

From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis