Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unamusing manner.

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  • adverb In an unamusing manner.

Etymologies

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unamusing +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Mainly Mr. Lippa's songs, which are unamusingly jokey ( "You have to see the world in shades of gray/You have to put some poison in your day") and tuneless to boot.

    I've Seen That Show Before Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mainly Mr. Lippa's songs, which are unamusingly jokey ( "You have to see the world in shades of gray/You have to put some poison in your day") and tuneless to boot.

    I've Seen That Show Before Terry Teachout 2010

  • Mainly Mr. Lippa's songs, which are unamusingly jokey ( "You have to see the world in shades of gray/You have to put some poison in your day") and tuneless to boot.

    I've Seen That Show Before Terry Teachout 2010

  • Rather unamusingly referred to in the index as "The Fool."

    FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles 1998

  • • Despite having pop points docked from his running tally in light of repeatedly and unamusingly saying "Shabba!" during his band's acceptance speech

    The Guardian World News Peter Robinson 2011

  • Amis and I are speaking on an "unamusingly cold" (his phrase) night in the first week of the new decade, in a large sitting room - really two rooms knocked together - on the raised ground floor of his imposing London town house, close to Regent's Park.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Amis and I are speaking on an "unamusingly cold" (his phrase) night in the first week of the new decade, in a large sitting room - really two rooms knocked together - on the raised ground floor of his imposing London town house, close to Regent's Park.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Amis and I are speaking on an "unamusingly cold" (his phrase) night in the first week of the new decade, in a large sitting room - really two rooms knocked together - on the raised ground floor of his imposing London town house, close to Regent's Park.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Mr. Timberlake unamusingly compares romance to fast food in "Carry Out," while Ms. Furtado strives for seduction in "Morning After Dark."

    NYT > Home Page By THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009

  • Mr. Timberlake unamusingly compares romance to fast food in "Carry Out," while Ms. Furtado strives for seduction in "Morning After Dark."

    NYT > Home Page 2009

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