Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not amusing.

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  • adjective Not amusing.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ amusing.

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Examples

  • The winning caption was “Service with a smile” or something equally unamusing.

    Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • For me, it is the combination of an eye and a sensibility, self-consciousness, and an often uncompromising – but not unamusing or dry, just the opposite!

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • Add to this my contracting a thoroughly unamusing case of severe hypoglycemia (not enough sugar in the old blood), and a neo-Falstaffian intake of alcohol and cocaine, and what do you have?

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • Given Miller's skill as a sketch writer, much of the material is pretty funny (compare it to last year's miserably unamusing Scottish film Crying With Laughter) and stands up to the magnification of the big screen, even if many viewers were left frustrated by the fact we never actually get to see the duo's live act.

    Edinburgh film festival roundup 2010

  • Sorry to sound all grumpy and unamusing, but it's early in the morning - and I'm so, so sick of explaining myself on this particular subject over and over again!

    What A Girl Wants juliette 2009

  • Well, it's time for a dull, factual, unamusing post full of tedious incident and boring detail - just letting you know what's going on in my life.

    Yeah But No But Yeah But juliette 2009

  • Well, it's time for a dull, factual, unamusing post full of tedious incident and boring detail - just letting you know what's going on in my life.

    Archive 2009-04-01 juliette 2009

  • That AFLAC commercial with the guy falling over backwards off the ladder while cleaning his gutters is especially unamusing, because that's exactly what happened to one of them.

    The man who wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die" died -- at age 47 -- in a fall at his house in L.A. Ann Althouse 2008

  • AFTERSNARK: Yes, for God's sake, I realize how utterly unamusing it is beating up on the Twatrick.

    Archive 2008-06-01 CC 2008

  • The film opens with an equally unamusing vignette with some Indians providing an old-time parallel to the main story, and a painfully unfunny narrator who thankfully disappears early in the film.

    1/27: Kill, Baby... Kill!; His Girl Friday; The Trouble With Harry; The Seven Year Itch Ed Howard 2008

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