How to Use unfunny in a Sentence

unfunny

adjective

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• The equally unfunny remarks need not be acknowledged at all.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• 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
• King and co-writer Simon Farnaby stuff the movie with head-scratching, vastly unfunny fat jokes that feel pulled from an early aughts romantic comedy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024