How to Use unserious in a Sentence

unserious

adjective
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  • The very phrase to tweet a threat is unserious; the medium is the message in a very bad way.
    — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Given all this, more of the same seems unserious to France.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Or the news alerts that seem to make the very idea of jokes unserious or unseemly?
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • If an injury is unserious, a child should rise to the occasion and play on.
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The first two-thirds of the catalogue seem like a coffee-table book and unserious.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • And the award for most unserious person on the internet goes to none other than Snoop Dogg.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The power of the purse is Congress’s primary lever—and the area where Congress is most unserious.
    — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
  • De Matteo says her success in the space was a surprise given that the whole thing started from an unserious premise.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But the story still seems unserious about World War II’s horrors.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That sounds like something out of a comic book — unserious.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 July 2023
  • That Sessions is willing to burn the house down over such a mundane concept tells us a lot about how unserious his whole position is.
    — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
  • And maybe that, more precisely, was what was so off-putting and seemingly unserious about Babitz in her day.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
  • As my colleague Matt Ford has written, acronym bills are typically the work of the unhinged or the unserious.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
  • As much as the characters try to take themselves and their jobs seriously, the writers present them in the most unserious manner.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The next morning… Oh my God, these producers are SO unserious.
    — EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
  • So how does a serious thing — radio waves from a dead star in the service of a suicide’s art — resonate faithfully in deeply unserious times?
    — Zachary Lipez, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • This type of legislative sausage-making has been common for years, but it’s also an unserious way to govern.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And so those strained apologies give way to what Logan really wants to do: Call his kids unserious for threatening to scuttle the GoJo deal.
    — Emily St. James, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Neatness, like newness, is the telltale concern of an unserious mind.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
  • And Democrats, no longer confident that an unserious huckster was destined to lose, were not at all complacent.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The clip is rife with clowns, juggling, and Harry lip-syncing with a himbo’s sense of whimsy, confirming that his unserious era will never end.
    — Bella Arnold, Vulture, 19 July 2023
  • Austen had a cutting wit, and her novels poked fun at the social mores of her day, even if the broader public now sees her as representing unserious romance.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Legally speaking, this effort is unserious, like trying to sign a contract 40 years too late.
    — Steve Marshall, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
  • And Johnson has a deeply unserious plan for resolving this problem.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Rowling has a fatwa on her head — put there by the most unserious, hateful, and unreasonable people that our sick and sorry culture has spat out.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • But Ross is perhaps the most unserious appointment Senator Shilling could have made.
    — Jake Curtis, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • Will Hurd is a serious person, and Congress is often an unserious place.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Not everyone has a home office but yet there’s something that still seems a little unserious [about a home or novelty background].
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In addition to finding the name unserious and possibly racist, he’s hung up on the fact that monkeypox doesn’t actually have much to do with monkeys.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Other researchers at the time derided this choice as unserious.
    — Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2022

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