unserious

Definition of unseriousnext

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Recent Examples of unserious With that in mind, some offered unserious responses. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026 Nobody takes the famously unserious holiday of April Fools as seriously as Adult Swim. Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2026 League sources told the Herald at the NFL combine last month the Patriots felt the asking price for Brown was unserious. Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2026 The inclusion of Logan Paul for Saturday's event proved the totally unserious nature of the roster construction. Jim Reineking, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unserious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unserious
Adjective
  • There’s no unimportant royal gossip, apparently.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Apr. 2026
  • If however, we were often criticized and made to feel unimportant, our self-talk may be more negative.
    Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Another bill is intended to deter frivolous challenges to a person’s right to vote and protect against efforts to illegally disqualify or purge voters (A6354 and S3233A).
    Phyllis Tashlik, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There’s nothing frivolous about playing or listening to music.
    Keith Wagstaff, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Trotsky’s arguments about revolution in one nation versus a revolution of the international proletariat, like the fine argumentative tracery of Paul’s Jewish Christians versus Greek ones, seemed vital to the movement at the time but weirdly trivial and abstract to those outside it.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • This might all seem trivial, but a mere annoyance compounds when it must be repeated every week for the rest of your life.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • That's not an insignificant sum.
    Chris Brennan, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Now that the Clippers have lost in the play-in, their pick will go into the draft lottery, and the Thunder will have a not-insignificant chance at a top-four pick.
    Tim Rohan, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Menu references to ancient reptiles — plus the brand’s silly mascot, a dinosaur in a toque — make fast food feel more like fun food.
    Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 16 Apr. 2026
  • What appears to be a bouncy, silly romp about a slightly surreal situation (Murray plays Phil, a weatherman reliving the same day over and over) is, at its core, actually quite deep.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Winds will be light and out of the northwest at around 5mph.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Most of the students wore collared shirts and slacks; the one female student who joined, Theresa Boyle, who lives in an apartment building across the street, wore a light-blue dress and a small cross necklace.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • It was found [that] the actual tumor was pretty small.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Then, the family says two others broke through a small window, manhandled their dogs and stole priceless mementos handed down through their family over generations, along with the cash.
    Nicole Comstock, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026

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“Unserious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unserious. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.

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