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humourlessly
adverb
UK(UShumorlessly)uk /ˈhjuː.mə.ləs.li/ us /ˈhjuː.mɚ.ləs.li/
in a way that lacks humour :
I found his last film to be slow-moving, with characters who were humourlessly drawn.
He laughed humourlessly to himself.
Related word
humourless
Scott smiled humourlessly. "Well, thanks for that brilliant piece of help," he sneered sarcastically.
"We've all been tricked," he muttered to himself humourlessly.
She grinned humourlessly. "It's okay, Katy. It's really been an experience."
Her hollow eyes stared back at him humourlessly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnestly
earnestness
intense
lightly
mirthlessly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombreness
starchy
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
ultra-serious
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