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- adverb In an
unserious way;flippantly ,frivolously .
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Examples
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I can think of no quicker way for you to be taken completely unseriously.
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As for being unseriously assaulted - I would have thought that happens to every child born.
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Do you ever remember a President taking his last two months as unseriously as this?
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For that matter, do you ever remember a President taking his entire 8 years in office as unseriously as this?
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I said it unseriously -- I was pointing out the ridiculously arbitrary and overreaching nature of the law.
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I said it unseriously -- I was pointing out the ridiculously arbitrary and overreaching nature of the law.
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Pranks unseriously challenge accepted reality and rigid behavioral codes and speech.
Boing Boing: August 20, 2006 - August 26, 2006 Archives 2006
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Please note Dr. C, Neo, Fretful, and others that I am not wishing--however seriously or unseriously--for a syllabus for my entire life, just the next three to five years of it.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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And this is my over-arching issue with TDK: it wants us to take utterly seriously that which it devotes the majority of its weighty attention relationships, questions of philosophy, black reflection of the zeitgeist, character arcs/deaths, etc. and entirely unseriously the rest of its super-hero-movie tropes, back-handed political allusions and other such genre conventions and standard Hollywood-isms.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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I said it unseriously -- I was pointing out the ridiculously arbitrary and overreaching nature of the law.
Debating the CHRC's Ian Fine: "there can't be enough laws against hate" - Ezra Levant 2008
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