It was a humorless wink. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Paches grinned, again humorless, and Phrynus felt the insult. From Wordnik.com. [The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber] Reference
First, I will grant your point that there is a certain humorless quality on the SMA forum. From Wordnik.com. [Won't You Dance with Me?] Reference
An idle thought: must all literary interviewers be so intense perhaps the word humorless applies about literature?. From Wordnik.com. [More Author Interviews : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Good design may not have to be funny, but it's hard to imagine something that could be called humorless also being good design. From Wordnik.com. [Taste for Makers] Reference
Baudelaire, in his essay on laughter, refers to the humorless as “spiteful pundits of solemnity” and “charlatans of gravity.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference
I don't usually do the internet quiz/meme/silliness thing, but this has caused me at times to be called humorless, and, hey, it's spring. From Wordnik.com. [Because If Everybody Else Jumped Off a Bridge, I Would, Too] Reference
I think "humorless" is a more likely Althousian adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty please.] Reference
If tango is "humorless", well, then, so is an all-consuming love affair. From Wordnik.com. [Ahistorical fiction?] Reference
If my comments about Pajamas were just "humorless" and "pompous," why didn't people just ignore me?. From Wordnik.com. [Free Exercise] Reference
And as I stated, any sort of remotely feminist idea often is met with the criticism of being "humorless" and "rigid.". From Wordnik.com. [Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference
Venezuala's situation is enviable only to those who seek danger and drama in politics, such as humorless newspaper columnists. From Wordnik.com. [From the WSJ Opinion Archives] Reference
No, but you said "the unamused folk represent four classic categories of conservatives", all of them a kind of humorless prig. From Wordnik.com. [The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case.] Reference
I want somebody who is sober and almost humorless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2009] Reference
(Gussie's humorless son, August III, deposed him in 1975.). From Wordnik.com. [Knocking Down The Kings Of Beer] Reference
And humorless folk sometimes have a hard, sad time of it in. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
BEE SEASON: A miscast and humorless mangling of the book. 5. From Wordnik.com. [The Five Most Disappointing Movies] Reference
He injects humor into a sometimes humorless business we're in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Don Imus Discusses Campaign 2000 - August 11, 2000] Reference
Finally, many of you may think we lawyers are a humorless bunch. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: Presidential Election Spends Historic Day in High Court - December 1, 2000] Reference
“OK, thank you,” said Brian McCarthy, the humorless NFL rep. From Wordnik.com. [That’s Entertainment!] Reference
That makes Bierce sound like a caricature of a humorless pedant. From Wordnik.com. ['Equation,' 'Gingerly' And Other Linguistic Pet Peeves] Reference
Stern, humorless Swedish-American .... ummm, steelworker Father. From Wordnik.com. [The Nielsens (part one)] Reference
We know we're in the tiny, wet-blanket humorless minority on this. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time to Scratch Tampa's 'DJ Kitty'] Reference
I get pretty tired of all the humorless fire and brimstone nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Secours: God Interview II: Sarah Palin Gets Equal Time With God and Explains Tea Party] Reference
Look, you know, he came off a little humorless, but put it in context. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2004] Reference
Stephanie is pretty humorless, and Grandma allows me to bring in humor. From Wordnik.com. [STANDING IN THE LINE OF FIRE] Reference
WHEN IT COMES to trademark infringement, companies can be pretty humorless. From Wordnik.com. [George V. George] Reference
Your attempt at a snappy paradox falls flat with this (humorless) scientist. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: A TYRANT ON TRIAL] Reference
To a succession of proud and humorless German leaders, this was intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy Of A Catastrophe] Reference
You know, the country is becoming humorless because of political correctness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2004] Reference
D'Ucello smiled at Daoud, a humorless grimace that stretched his thin mustache. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
It's not terrible just lumbering and humorless and pretentious, with a drag of a hero. From Wordnik.com. ['Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream] Reference
Its adherents were stereotyped as humorless, sexless enemies of free thought and inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Learning to Live With Radical Presbyterians] Reference
But what it then did is it fed into this narrative, which is that Obama is slightly humorless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2008] Reference
Intense and somewhat humorless, O'Neill may emerge as the most powerful pitchman for the tax cut. From Wordnik.com. [BUSH'S MONEY POSSE] Reference
That Rees found humor at such a humorless time isn't surprising: he's a quirky but thoughtful guy. From Wordnik.com. [Powell Pulls Through] Reference
"When I look back on it, it was a pretty grim and humorless time that I went through," he recalls. From Wordnik.com. [When Barry Became Barack] Reference
The women were regarded, perhaps unfairly, by the Gore campaign as humorless and hyper - critical. From Wordnik.com. [George W. Wins The 'Phony War'] Reference
His carefully combed dark hair made him look almost strikingly handsome, but his eyes were black and humorless. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
Eight years later, Richard Nixon tried to show he wasn't a humorless uptight guy, did a cameo on "Laugh-In," asking a popular question. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2003] Reference
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