Nonfunny

"Nonfunny" in a Sentence (3 examples)

She laughed. A bitter, nonfunny laugh.

Nope - my interpretation of your comments is accurate - every post of yours that I read leaves me wondering why you are here (and why don't you ever get moderated) - you always come off as ill tempered, nitpicky, snide, sarcastic in a nonfunny way, and incredibly argumentative.

That is, on the setup/punch-line model, the entire joke, from beginning to end, can be described as funny, once the punch line has occurred, but equally, for asymmetrical reasons outlined above, as nonfunny.

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