Definitions

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  • adverb In a manner which is not humorous.

Etymologies

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unhumorous +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • "I might add that it was remarkable to experience, sir," Libby answered unhumorously.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • "I might add that it was remarkable to experience, sir," Libby answered unhumorously.

    Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

  • The next day I learned more from Rachel of how Paul had agonized over the death of his tiny wife ... "'she was that small you had a'most to shake out the sheets to find her,' as Josh useter say," said Rachel gravely and unhumorously ... and she told how the bereaved husband savagely fought off all his womenfolk and insisted on mothering, for a year, the baby whose birth had killed its mother.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • "That's the girl who loves me," said Stanton not unhumorously.

    Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915

  • It reveals two fundamental points about human memory and cognition, both of which can also be demonstrated unhumorously in the following manner:

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • It reveals two fundamental points about human memory and cognition, both of which can also be demonstrated unhumorously in the following manner:

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • It reveals two fundamental points about human memory and cognition, both of which can also be demonstrated unhumorously in the following manner:

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The next day I learned more from Rachel of how Paul had agonized over the death of his tiny wife ... “ 'she was that small you had a'most to shake out the sheets to find her,' as Josh useter say,” said Rachel gravely and unhumorously ... and she told how the bereaved husband savagely fought off all his womenfolk and insisted on mothering, for a year, the baby whose birth had killed its mother.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • There's rape, and then there's Flabber rape. yo as a writer for a e-newspaper i intentionally and unhumorously add shitty groups to arbitrarily named "high" ranking sections despite the subject matter being so utterly boring that proper writing would be the only reason somebody could make it through. deal wid it. so basically you joined up with a bunch of military wannabes and got kicked out then whined about it and joined the mercz gotcha

    World of SL 2008

  • There's rape, and then there's Flabber rape. yo as a writer for a e-newspaper i intentionally and unhumorously add shitty groups to arbitrarily named "high" ranking sections despite the subject matter being so utterly boring that proper writing would be the only reason somebody could make it through. deal wid it. so basically you joined up with a bunch of military wannabes and got kicked out then whined about it and joined the mercz gotcha

    World of SL 2008

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