释义 |
unˈfunny, a. (un-1 7.)
1858Hogg Life Shelley I. 318 The application was..‘haud illepidum’, not unfunny. 1892Nation (N.Y.) 30 June 489/1 It is most lugubriously unfunny. Hence unˈfunnily adv.; unˈfunniness.
1927Daily Mirror 10 Dec. 4/1, I saw quite a lot of Mark Twain, and my chief astonishment was his regular unfunniness. 1958N. Marsh Singing in Shrouds (1959) viii. 160 Could he hit quite such an all-time-low for unfunniness, do you suppose? 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 221 A student who unfunnily plays the fool. 1973Daily Tel. 16 Mar. 14/4 The amiable progress began..at Harwich, which Mr Cutforth..unfunnily commended for being pleasant and rather empty. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 1342/5 For me, it had all the wearisome unfunniness of back numbers of Punch perused in the dentist's waiting-room. |