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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfunny
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As you may have noticed, almost anyone in Hollywood can make an unfunny comedy.
▪ He called Marro seven more times over the weekend to remind him just how unfunny it was.
▪ I have told him that he is being very unfunny.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfunny

1858, from un- (1) "not" + funny (adj.).

Wiktionary
unfunny

a. not funny, especially any thing that is designed to be found funny and fails

WordNet
unfunny

adj. not funny; especially failing to achieve the intended humor; "a very unfunny joke"

Usage examples of "unfunny".

I have eighteen or twenty of these discarded copies, each with an inscription which is either unfunny or misspelled.

The next Advanced Basics guy summoned by their gleamingly bald western-wear chairman to speak is dreadfully, transparently unfunny: painfully new but pretending to be at ease, to be an old hand, desperate to amuse and impress them.

As he told long, unfunny jokes, thrummed on the piano, and danced with wonky corpulence, he had become aware that his audience was by no means a captive one, and so began to simulate an even more toe-curling pathos, recounting his long history of failure, telling of previous flops with a forgiving smile, simpering into the microphone about his obesity, lack of rehearsing time, alcoholism, etc.

No reason why life just should be this endless rolling panorama of bodged friendships, fumbled opportunities, fatuous conversations, wasted days, idiotic remarks and ill-judged, unfunny jokes that just lie on the floor in front of me, flipping about like dying fish?

She could not create puns consciously, and even had that been possible, what pun would suffice for something as unfunny as this?