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- noun Alternative spelling of
humorlessness .
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Examples
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That's all very well, but in my experience, often also a recipe for extreme worthiness and humourlessness I invoke here the Edie Falco Principle.
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The other odd thing about The Great British Bake-Off, in which 10 home bakers were herded into a marquee to handmix their way to glory, was the humourlessness that pervaded the proceedings.
TV review: The Great British Bake-Off, The Making of King Arthur and Ideal 2010
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The most conspicuous trait of the Neanderthal character was its absolute humourlessness or, more exactly, its lack of frivolity.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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The British comedian Stewart Lee once blamed the German reputation for humourlessness on that language's inflexible sentence structures, which preclude the twist-in-the-tail techniques on which English-language comedy depends.
Translating jokes into English leads comics to new punch lines 2010
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Having run the gamut of wankery cluelessness, humourlessness, litigiousness and what have you back here, Blogging Tory and perpetual whiner Sandy Crux finally slaps a big red bow on that puppy: "Comments are now off."
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It contains some interesting observations about clothes and feminist humourlessness, as well as taking stock of the very real progress made in Europe and the US in particular.
Call Yourself a feminist? worth a listen? aliqot 2009
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Her voice was laden down with the ominously earnest, offendable humourlessness that characterises an awful lot of this BDSM malarkey.
Of Human Bondage juliette 2009
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It contains some interesting observations about clothes and feminist humourlessness, as well as taking stock of the very real progress made in Europe and the US in particular.
Archive 2009-03-01 aliqot 2009
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Her voice was laden down with the ominously earnest, offendable humourlessness that characterises an awful lot of this BDSM malarkey.
Archive 2009-02-01 juliette 2009
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Archbishop Fred Hiltz for taking himself so seriously, his unmatched humourlessness and for general obsequiousness to Rowan the Druid.
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