How to Use unfunny in a Sentence

unfunny

adjective
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  • At the end of this long, unfunny year, give yourself the gift of wacky.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Catholic coverups made priests the butt of jokes and altar boys their unfunny punch lines.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 24 May 2022
  • What is deeply unfunny about the whole thing is that Democrats could end this farce at any time and have not yet done so.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Margera would wake up in the morning and try it all again, an unfunny Groundhog Day.
    — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But not even the shenanigans of an unfunny white man could take away from the glory of Brunson’s big moment.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Now, how about making either/both of them an offer that doesn’t sound like a punch line to an unfunny joke?
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • The Old Comedy was more abrasive and more childish, though not in an unfunny way.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Anyone who has worked for hours over a Charlotte Malakoff or veal Orloff, or even just a batch of caramelized onions, knows how truly unfunny failure can be.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The oddly unfunny Terry subplot feels even more poorly written when Rosa just comes in and solves the case (at least Terry got all the bad cops sick).
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
  • But something unfunny happened on the way to the festival: Sondheim died.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In some ways, this story is like a long, bizarro, very unfunny episode of Seinfeld — no hugging, no learning.
    — Dvora Meyers, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
  • However, as unfunny as Sean Spicer was, the shocked reactions from the audience made up for it.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Almost all of his previous films have been labeled as irrational, but none of his films have been as flat and unfunny as the latest one.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • At one point, Mark is floored by a health crisis and a revelation about his father; the scene is played for laughs and yet feels disturbingly unfunny.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 16 July 2021
  • But what was no doubt meant to be a smart, humorous and incisive war of wits is instead mostly grating, facile and unfunny.
    — Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Netflix Few things are funnier to a person than their own drug stories — or as unfunny to pretty much anyone else.
    — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • Greg Gutfeld’s painfully unfunny late-night show, Gutfeld!, will move to 10 p.m. Both hosts use the guise of comedy to push reactionary views.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • But the jokes — the would-be humorous camaraderie with Yeager and his robot running buddies — are stale and unfunny.
    — Cary Darling, star-telegram, 20 June 2017
  • Of course, as with all pleasant things, YouTubers had to take it one unfunny step too far and actually show people eating Tide Pods.
    — Evelyn Wang, Allure, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The result is something that’s boring, unfunny, and soulless.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 June 2019
  • But the joke may have ultimately been on Colbert himself, with his introduction of Sean Spicer in a painfully unfunny gag about crowd size that left a bad taste in the mouths of many.
    — Libby Hill, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Comedy is the most subjective thing in the world, and what’s appallingly unfunny to someone is genius to someone else.
    — Rob Turbovsky, Vulture, 26 July 2021
  • Not everything is going to land and not everything will be unfunny.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 July 2022
  • Either way, it's steadily gained popularity over the years — as a very unfunny joke.
    — Evelyn Wang, Allure, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Sure, the series became an unfunny, bloated, laugh-track dependent mess somewhere around episode No.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 27 May 2020
  • Welcome to Broadway’s fleurs-du-mal moment, a rare blossoming of funny plays on deeply unfunny subjects.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Marie’s mind was elsewhere, fretting over the trip to Nashville ahead of her: mandatory champagne pong, staged group photos, and painfully unfunny hashtags.
    — Cory Stieg, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019
  • The question of why conservatives are so unfunny remains something of a mystery.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Men who are funny trigger suspicion within me — as though the funny is doing something to distract me from whatever the unfunny is up to.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2018
  • After an especially unfunny bit prior to the announcement that involved him pretending to be passed out on the floor, Brunson had to step over him to get to the microphone for her speech.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2022

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