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Recent Examples of unfunny
This kind of video may make zero sense to an older person, or even seem unfunny, but to young people, calm is found in the distraction.
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Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 June 2025
Case in point, Bill Maher’s recent unfunny rant about Cassie Ventura, the woman at the center of the Diddy allegations.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Notably, the closing scene doesn’t even feature Li or his supporting cast, instead pairing off Daniel and a cameo from the franchise’s past for an extended, unfunny gag.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
And so, what was once a lazy, crazy, charming afternoon daydream of a movie is now a frantic, insistent, often unfunny sci-fi comedy.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
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Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 23 June 2025
Case in point, Bill Maher’s recent unfunny rant about Cassie Ventura, the woman at the center of the Diddy allegations.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
Notably, the closing scene doesn’t even feature Li or his supporting cast, instead pairing off Daniel and a cameo from the franchise’s past for an extended, unfunny gag.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
And so, what was once a lazy, crazy, charming afternoon daydream of a movie is now a frantic, insistent, often unfunny sci-fi comedy.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfunny
Adjective
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His mouth is closed and fixed in a humorless grin, concealing the eating machine within eight rows of long, hollow teeth arranged helter-skelter in each rank like thorns on a dead rose.—
Pat Smith,
Outdoor Life,
24 July 2025
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For Max in particular, his parent’s lifelong humorless severity looks more and more like malevolent delusion under a cloak of puritanical righteousness.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Shootouts are lame in comparison.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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On the other hand, Powell probably has little incentive to commit firmly given high lame-duck status and the fact that more employment and inflation numbers will hit before the September meeting.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Leslie Felperin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2017
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“Unfunny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfunny. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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