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Recent Examples of unfunny
After a strained and generally unfunny introduction that loosely connects The Office to the new series, The Paper takes us to Toledo and the offices of the Toledo Truth-Teller.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Some Democrats have praised the posts as humorous and a necessary counterattack, while many Republicans have criticized them as cringy, unfunny, and inauthentic.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Somehow this ineptly plotted affair lured Keke Palmer into its lair and her comedy chops all but gets handcuffed by an illogical, unfunny screenplay.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Critics slammed the movie as unfunny and offering little appeal outside of Rihanna.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Some Democrats have praised the posts as humorous and a necessary counterattack, while many Republicans have criticized them as cringy, unfunny, and inauthentic.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Somehow this ineptly plotted affair lured Keke Palmer into its lair and her comedy chops all but gets handcuffed by an illogical, unfunny screenplay.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Critics slammed the movie as unfunny and offering little appeal outside of Rihanna.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfunny
Adjective
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For a man known around the Pentagon as a relentless, humorless taskmaster, McNamara seemed virtually unrecognizable on the party circuit, mingling casually with journalists, fellow government officials, and vivacious Georgetown hostesses.—
William Taubman,
Air Mail,
20 Sep. 2025
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Single-minded and fairly humorless, Chappellet is impelled but seldom impulsive.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The flowers are the best, even if the leaves are lame and flop over.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
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Cut to Culhane doing lame bits with chopsticks as walrus teeth.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Oct. 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 29 Nov. 2025.
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