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Meanings of unhumorous in anglès

espanyol
solemne

Lacking humor; a wink of warning"- Truman Capote.

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Examples for "humorless"
1
And the foundations, of course, Iss thought with a quick humorless smile.
A Cavern of Black Ice
2
In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
The new yorker
3
It was a stony smile, humorless as a crevasse in a rock-face.
Highways in Hiding
4
Levet gave a short, humorless laugh as he spread his arms wide.
Embrace the darkness
5
Again that curious, humorless smile flickered about the corners of his mouth.
The Lost Valley
1
Now I'm running code crackers on everything he controlled.' A humourless smile.
The Departure
2
The others were all desperately intent on their mission, and so humourless.
The Neutronium Alchemist
3
Campaigners long vilified as humourless, sexless feminist nags and hags have won.
The Guardian
4
But with someone as humourless as Lessing, comedy is unlikely to thrive.
The Irish Times
5
There are no witty jokes, as the characters are all utterly humourless.
The Irish Times
Usage of unhumorous in anglès
1
Silas looked at her out of his melancholy and unhumorous eyes.
The Fortunate Youth
2
He said this with a mechanical, slow, and unhumorous voice.
The Illustrated Man
3
Even the profound, unreasonable, unhumorous idealism of old Steadfast had its quaint, Utopian appeal.
Foes
4
Faulkner regarded him with unhumorous appraisal, drew up a chair.
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse
5
He took his cigar from his lips and looked at her with not unhumorous dryness.
The Fortunate Youth
6
I had a suffocating, not unhumorous, sense of self-consciousness.
Adventures in Contentment
7
Plump, prosperous, wearing a pleasant but quite unhumorous smile, Theron G. Macy greeted him warmly.
Flappers and Philosophers
8
The unhumorous smile appeared.
Flappers and Philosophers
9
There was "renewed laughter," but Colonel Winwood remained the hero of the half-hour and received the ecstatic congratulations of unhumorous friends.
The Fortunate Youth
10
"Extraordinary woman!" said Lady Ingleton, with a faint, unhumorous smile.
In the Wilderness
11
"That was a real unhumorous laugh," Evans said.
The Settling of the Sage
12
Silas looked at her out of his melancholy and unhumorous eyes.
The Fortunate Youth
13
He said this with a mechanical, slow, and unhumorous voice.
The Illustrated Man
14
Even the profound, unreasonable, unhumorous idealism of old Steadfast had its quaint, Utopian appeal.
Foes
15
Faulkner regarded him with unhumorous appraisal, drew up a chair.
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse
16
He took his cigar from his lips and looked at her with not unhumorous dryness.
The Fortunate Youth
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solemne
Unhumorous through the time