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Recent Examples of funny
Adjective
Her decades of championing Queer stories and her track record of delivering smart, funny, heartwarming films and television gives us great confidence. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025 After all, fiction is a funny thing. Morgan Radford, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
Lily Harrison’s script is laugh-out-loud funny while staying grounded and deeply relatable. Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025 But while the ads are laugh-out-loud funny, the product is anything but a joking matter. Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for funny
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funny
Adjective
  • Gijsje Ribbens, the founder and creative director of RiRa, agrees that this style is all about a return to organic forms and construction, all with a humorous bent.
    Emily Johnson, Architectural Digest, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The humorous update, which prompted a flood of amused comments from viewers, offers a relatable look at the challenges many dog owners face when training their pets to be alone—particularly with a clingy breed like a Bernese mountain dog.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the film, Credenza runs the bizarre amusement park of Twitlandia alongside her husband — delighting in dirty pranks, filth and cruelty along the way.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • However, an anonymous NFL general manager has urged the team to target a bizarre position instead.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The shake-up leaves an unusual number of spots open on the party’s Central Committee, which began its term in 2022 with 205 members and 171 non-voting alternates.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Moose Jaw was actually unusual for its welcoming of Chinese immigrants, no small achievement in the often violently racist response to Asian immigrants to North America.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Animated characters like Tony the Tiger, Count Chocula and Fred Flintstone blurred the line between ads and morning cartoons.
    Alice Callahan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This hilarious chapter book is perfect for young independent readers or for parents to read aloud with their kids; the cartoon-style illustrations add even more fun and humor to the reading experience.
    Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s a joke in here somewhere.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Some Sora users depicted King making crude jokes and other inappropriate content.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Miles himself has gotten increasingly popular in the the last few years for his comedic approach to rap.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson spent his leisure time writing down the strange new lyrics in his journal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • While factory closures have not been uncommon over the past year, BGMEA officials say the industry is facing mounting pressures.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike Major League Baseball, fire sales are highly uncommon in the NFL when teams fall out of playoff contention.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Funny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funny. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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