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US
/ˈhjumɝɫəs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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lacking humor
it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning
How To Use humorless In A Sentence
- But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
- ‘Tell me something I don't know,’ I laughed humorlessly, getting up.
- After a brief pause, she smiled at him humorlessly.
- Our mean-minded monarchists really are a bunch of humourless humbugs.
- His life had run so smoothly that he was habitually inflexible, and perhaps rather humourless. My Darling Heriott: Henrietta Luxborough, Poetic Gardener and Irrepressible Exile
- Humourless and heavy-hearted love only produces hate as its offspring.
- We need not argue at length that philosophy is serious, but this does not mean that it needs to be solemn or humourless.
- After a brief pause, she smiled at him humorlessly.
- Paches grinned, again humorless, and Phrynus felt the insult. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
- he reacted rather humorlessly to these rumors