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
  • All that’s left is some hopeless cringe, stunt guest stars and unfunny jokes.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Catholic coverups made priests the butt of jokes and altar boys their unfunny punch lines.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 24 May 2022
  • All that's left is some hopeless cringe, stunt guest stars and unfunny jokes.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But Colbert got rich with his unfunny satire.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Critics called it awkward, creepy, and unfunny.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But from a pure comedy standpoint, the joke was just basic—and unfunny.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Poppa’s not pleased, which leads to an awkward and painfully unfunny exchange of freestyle rhymes.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Not everything is going to land and not everything will be unfunny.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 30 July 2022
  • The Old Comedy was more abrasive and more childish, though not in an unfunny way.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The result is something that’s boring, unfunny, and soulless.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 June 2019
  • 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
  • Either way, it's steadily gained popularity over the years — as a very unfunny joke.
    — Evelyn Wang, Allure, 18 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s this long confessional bit where everyone tries to describe what a tectonic plate is that is deeply unfunny.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Elon Musk is profoundly unfunny.
    — Maria Bamford, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The question of why conservatives are so unfunny remains something of a mystery.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Sure, the series became an unfunny, bloated, laugh-track dependent mess somewhere around episode No.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 27 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Welcome to Broadway’s fleurs-du-mal moment, a rare blossoming of funny plays on deeply unfunny subjects.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kimmel's come in for criticism in recent months because his show is so unrelentingly unfunny, extreme, and tough to watch.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026

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