What is "humourless"

Usage examples of "humourless".

Regal, humourless, briskly prosaic, the Queen Dowager of Scotland had conducted the audience with her usual French competence and was bringing it to its usual racing conclusion.

He was cold, tired, and humourless, and had no intention of waiting to see young men run over housetops from the cathedral hill to the chateau in the dark.

A grin lit his features, rendered wicked and humourless by the anger that lay behind.

Janice recalled the strong, humourless face of the German psychiatrist at their last session and her parting words to them.

Sometimes his face puckered enough to bare his teeth in a curious lopsided humourless smile.

No one but a poker-faced German with a high pucker factor could have painted such a humourless thing.

Madren viewed the Felden with some disdain while the Felden viewed them in their turn as sour faced, humourless and obsessively religious.

That Middleton would try to persuade the court that she had consented to sex with him rendered the trial a humourless farce.

He looked at his face now in the mirror: it looked back at him, humourless and self-pitying.

MacGregor responded with a thin humourless smile and changed the subject.

Humourless she might be, unenamoured of the human species she probably was, but insensitive she most certainly was not.

Balding and humourless, Riquier was much the best of the household corans, and she was, in any case, prepared to smile at almost anyone this morn­ing.

A tall, lean man, with an unremarkable face and a permanent five o'clock shadow, he was, like a number of men who are humourless and unaware of it, given to smiling at frequent intervals and usually at inappropriate moments.

A humourless smile touched his lips and his eyes gleamed with a light that frightened Kris.

New Mole in Gibraltar, taking in fresh supplies and waiting for the levanter to blow out, the strong east wind that prevented her from passing the Strait into the Mediterranean, he sat luxuriating in the sun in the stern-galley, his bandaged feet on a stool, a glass of fresh orange-juice in his hand, and Professor Graham by his side: for although the Scotchman was a grey, somewhat positive, humourless soul he had read a great deal, and now that he had overcome at least some of his initial reserve he was a grateful companion, a man of obvious parts, and in no way a bore.