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Significados de humourless en inglés

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

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Examples for "humorless"
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And the foundations, of course, Iss thought with a quick humorless smile.
A Cavern of Black Ice
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In the Presidential debate Carter came across as carping, pinched and humorless.
The new yorker
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It was a stony smile, humorless as a crevasse in a rock-face.
Highways in Hiding
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Levet gave a short, humorless laugh as he spread his arms wide.
Embrace the darkness
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Again that curious, humorless smile flickered about the corners of his mouth.
The Lost Valley
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Silas looked at her out of his melancholy and unhumorous eyes.
The Fortunate Youth
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He said this with a mechanical, slow, and unhumorous voice.
The Illustrated Man
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Even the profound, unreasonable, unhumorous idealism of old Steadfast had its quaint, Utopian appeal.
Foes
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Faulkner regarded him with unhumorous appraisal, drew up a chair.
The Case of the Gold-Digger’s Purse
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He took his cigar from his lips and looked at her with not unhumorous dryness.
The Fortunate Youth
Uso de humourless en inglés
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Now I'm running code crackers on everything he controlled.' A humourless smile.
The Departure
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The others were all desperately intent on their mission, and so humourless.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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Campaigners long vilified as humourless, sexless feminist nags and hags have won.
The Guardian
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But with someone as humourless as Lessing, comedy is unlikely to thrive.
The Irish Times
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There are no witty jokes, as the characters are all utterly humourless.
The Irish Times
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Relentless in the telling, it all adds up to a dull, humourless work.
The Irish Times
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She was a humourless feminazi before the term was even invented.
The Guardian
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Her style is relentlessly upbeat, but her moral seriousness makes her sound humourless.
The Guardian
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He had a reputation as a humourless man, but he seems so jolly.
Reuters
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His thick lips drew back from his blunt teeth in a humourless smile.
Dancer’s Lament
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He was good-looking, vain, arrogant and humourless -textbook party loyal.
Agent 6
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A second hotel employee, hip and humourless, flicks through the bookings for late December.
The half life of stars: a novel
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Once again I was treated to that peculiarly humourless smile.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Even the Home Secretary, a severe, humourless, legal gentleman, cackled.
The Lost Naval Papers
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Jhogen?' Comprehension dawned on Coots with a quiet humourless smile.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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Identity, it turns out, does not have to be static and humourless and defensive.
The Irish Times
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