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- adjective British, Canada Alternative spelling of
humorless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking humor
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Examples
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Since her appointment, Bishop Kassmann, who is often described as humourless, has played the role of a moral authority.
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Questionable, weighted use of "humourless," aside, do you honestly think that's what the ire in this thread is directed at?
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Some of those e-mails even go so far as to call him "humourless" and tell him to "lighten up".
The Western Standard is being sued for publishing Mohammed Cartoons Suzanne 2006
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You've never seen people bringing up feminist issues on websites being dismissed using phrases such as humourless, lesbian, hag, prude and so on before?
Eurogamer 2010
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I got her to repeatedly say, "Where's my money?" and for a little while we had placed distance between ourselves and the true and humourless reason my aunt had on that hat.
Alyson Renaldo: Acknowledging Pink Month, Celebrating Pinked People Alyson Renaldo 2011
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I got her to repeatedly say, "Where's my money?" and for a little while we had placed distance between ourselves and the true and humourless reason my aunt had on that hat.
Alyson Renaldo: Acknowledging Pink Month, Celebrating Pinked People Alyson Renaldo 2011
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There is more well written fiction — creative writingese, bloodless, humourless competence – today than there has ever been at any time in history, and less really great literature.
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And the conservative traditionalism of you Scots – strong, dour, humourless in phoney caricature – let it be seen as colourfully fired up these next 90 days by the oil of your country's new-found radicalism.
Des Connor's 1971 Lions-bait remains absolutely priceless | Frank Keating 2011
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There is more well written fiction — creative writingese, bloodless, humourless competence – today than there has ever been at any time in history, and less really great literature.
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Green raised the stakes by asserting that the beer "demeans women" and suddenly battle lines were drawn between sleazy, objectifying, ale-swilling dinosaurs and humourless harpies hellbent on squeezing every drop of pleasure from the beer mat of life.
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