Our professor is boring and humorless.
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Humorless
Synonyms for "humorless" (109 found)
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Adjective(26 words)
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6 translations across 4 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- humorloos adj (lacking humor)
Finnish
2 entries- kuivakka adj (lacking humor)
- tosikkomainen adj (lacking humor)
German
2 entries- humorlos adj (lacking humor)
- witzlos adj (lacking humor)
Russian
1 entries- лишенный чувства юмора adj (lacking humor)
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The comedian told a humorless joke.
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He liked food and wine and conversation. He was a moralist, but not a solemn or humorless man in the least.
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Cracking up humorless and tasteless jokes about the dead is distastefully disrespectful to the world of the dead.
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