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Recent Examples of unamusing
For some, the fundamental flaw will be that, despite the title, the comic material (mostly culled from vintage gags of the period) the characters perform onstage sounds painfully unamusing to contemporary ears.
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unamusing
Adjective
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Credit perhaps goes to Belew’s fellowship with Zappa, or Fripp’s growing resistance to being pegged as some humorless tyrant.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
11 Jan. 2026
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Funny novels are invariably more serious than humorless ones.—
Rosa Lyster,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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This struck me as heartbreakingly lame and, therefore, as a moment of vital consequence.—
Amanda Peet,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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Duke fires the shot that kills the king Dying Tommy insists Duke finish him off with the bullet like a lame horse.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The show’s competent yet miraculously unfunny host, Trevor Noah, cozied up to Bad Bunny at his table and begged him to perform—a ploy, perhaps, to remind the audience that the real performance was soon to come, at the Super Bowl.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
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Mike Myers returned as twitchy, unfunny Elon Musk, there to introduce a memorial segment and accompanying song eulogizing the things the Trump administration has taken down including the East Wing, DEI, civil rights and Marjorie Taylor Greene.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Together, these variables can cause inconsistencies between how many calories a food actually contains and how many are listed on that food’s nutrition label — even if a company has made an earnest attempt at calculating them.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
NBC news,
22 Mar. 2026
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Then came Forever, a cringingly earnest opus whose EQ included a toy frog.—
Samuel Hyland,
Pitchfork,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The men had serious criminal convictions and said Cuba would not take them back as a result.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Despite repairs having been made, the billing and collection system still has serious problems.—
Noel Brennan,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Unamusing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unamusing. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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