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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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Their worldview that being on the right side of history doesn’t necessitate being humorless scolds turned out to be a contagious one that has since found its way into stand-up.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Cut to Culhane doing lame bits with chopsticks as walrus teeth.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Oct. 2025
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Add in coach Steve Kerr willingly working on a lame-duck contract, and the Warriors could be looking for a new path forward within the year of saying hello to Butler, meaning that smell around Chase Center is one of desperation.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 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 30 Oct. 2025.
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