How to Use unserious in a Sentence

unserious

adjective
  • Or the news alerts that seem to make the very idea of jokes unserious or unseemly?
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Kids and adults at the matchup leaned more toward the unserious side of baseball.
    — Kansas City Star, 31 May 2026
  • Male directors get to make big, unserious epics all the time.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Feb. 2026
  • If an injury is unserious, a child should rise to the occasion and play on.
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Voting by phone is an unserious idea.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Idle threats are a common — and mostly unserious — feature of any rap beef.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
  • The first two-thirds of the catalogue seem like a coffee-table book and unserious.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
  • But leave it to panelist Ken Jeong to give the night its most unserious moment.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Minaj went on to acknowledge how unserious this all is.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Or are the Chiefs simply unserious?
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Miami is a deeply unserious city, and this is a deeply unserious cast.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Chasing a music of earnest heroism meant not being afraid to run toward ideas that might seem childish or unserious.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Neatness, like newness, is the telltale concern of an unserious mind.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • And the award for most unserious person on the internet goes to none other than Snoop Dogg.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • This unserious attitude towards the use of force should not become routine.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • With that in mind, some offered unserious responses.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • There’s an enormity to being in the early stages of a career and fearing being seen as unserious.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Across the court was Kornet, a patently unserious man, nursing a gash on his elbow.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • And Johnson has a deeply unserious plan for resolving this problem.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But the most compelling part of the film, in his opinion, was the unserious nature of the characters’ adventure.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Cars crash, wigs fly, and doors shatter in this surprisingly affecting — and still deeply unserious — movie.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The episode is replete with racist tropes and stereotypes, made all the worse by the fact that it's all presented as an unserious Halloween treat.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
  • Legally speaking, this effort is unserious, like trying to sign a contract 40 years too late.
    — Steve Marshall, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
  • The Senate’s $4 billion cuts over the same ten years is an unserious attempt to right our economic ship.
    — Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
  • This is not to say that all trade paperbacks are unserious or undeserving of coverage.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But Ball has had injury problems, looked unserious earlier in his career and had off-court issues.
    — Law Murray, New York Times, 25 June 2026

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