humourless - lacking humor; "it was a humorless wink; a wink of warning"- Truman CapoteHow to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content.
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Before the war, Dawson had been a mathematics instructor at Royal Military College (Kingston) and, as the sobriquet "Dismal Dawson" would suggest, was humourless officer, and very, very strict. SIR: Oh capricious editors: How could I have guessed you were itching to denounce 'the humourless aridities of Le Havre'? Quite the contrary, both probably appreciated from the start the damage it would do their reputations with the king who could be guaranteed to take a rather humourless view of his servants brawling" (1995, 247). |
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