Definitions
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- adjective Devoid of
jokes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally, after seeing so many boring and jokeless advertisement, I finally stumbled over some really nice examples at hemmy. net One of my favourites: [...]
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These were high-flying sentiments, written, to great effect, in DeLillo's increasingly jokeless prose.
Racing Against Reality O'Hagan, Andrew 2007
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Or a well written, but jokeless sit-com where I had guessed what had happend and asked for the first draft they had bought - two years ago.
A Ghost of a Chance! Miss Snark 2005
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Constitution as the bathless bath of the basin, as the jokeless joke of the pun, as the entertainment that entertains not, as the ruler that rules not and the freedom that frees not.
The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889
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"Going out, Minnie," he said, in his jokeless voice, "to get some catnip for you."
The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888
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** A jokeless comic where the reader is reminded that Randall knows that math/physics/programming exists
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** A jokeless comic where the reader is reminded that Randall knows that math/physics/programming exists
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But the minute they meet up with Levy, they turn into a jokeless Joe Besser, bumbling and broad without a single hint of strength or subtlety.
PopMatters Bill Gibron 2010
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** A jokeless comic where the reader is reminded that Randall knows that math/physics/programming exists
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I really do like the current strip, but please don’t be swayed by all this positvie feedback into thinking you get away with making every strip from now on “jokeless”.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic. More of an esoteric drawing. 2006
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