How to Use unserious in a Sentence

unserious

adjective

• The very phrase to tweet a threat is unserious; the medium is the message in a very bad way.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 3 Jan. 2018
• Given all this, more of the same seems unserious to France.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• Or the news alerts that seem to make the very idea of jokes unserious or unseemly?
  — Madeleine Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• If an injury is unserious, a child should rise to the occasion and play on.
  — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
• The first two-thirds of the catalogue seem like a coffee-table book and unserious.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• And the award for most unserious person on the internet goes to none other than Snoop Dogg.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• The power of the purse is Congress’s primary lever—and the area where Congress is most unserious.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
• But the most compelling part of the film, in his opinion, was the unserious nature of the characters’ adventure.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 20 Apr. 2024
• De Matteo says her success in the space was a surprise given that the whole thing started from an unserious premise.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• But the story still seems unserious about World War II’s horrors.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• That sounds like something out of a comic book — unserious.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 July 2023
• Idle threats are a common — and mostly unserious — feature of any rap beef.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
• That Sessions is willing to burn the house down over such a mundane concept tells us a lot about how unserious his whole position is.
  — Cristian Farias, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
• And maybe that, more precisely, was what was so off-putting and seemingly unserious about Babitz in her day.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
• As my colleague Matt Ford has written, acronym bills are typically the work of the unhinged or the unserious.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2023
• As much as the characters try to take themselves and their jobs seriously, the writers present them in the most unserious manner.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• The next morning… Oh my God, these producers are SO unserious.
  — EW.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• There’s an enormity to being in the early stages of a career and fearing being seen as unserious.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024
• So how does a serious thing — radio waves from a dead star in the service of a suicide’s art — resonate faithfully in deeply unserious times?
  — Zachary Lipez, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
• This type of legislative sausage-making has been common for years, but it’s also an unserious way to govern.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 22 Dec. 2022
• And so those strained apologies give way to what Logan really wants to do: Call his kids unserious for threatening to scuttle the GoJo deal.
  — Emily St. James, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2023
• Neatness, like newness, is the telltale concern of an unserious mind.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021
• And Democrats, no longer confident that an unserious huckster was destined to lose, were not at all complacent.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
• The clip is rife with clowns, juggling, and Harry lip-syncing with a himbo’s sense of whimsy, confirming that his unserious era will never end.
  — Bella Arnold, Vulture, 19 July 2023
• Austen had a cutting wit, and her novels poked fun at the social mores of her day, even if the broader public now sees her as representing unserious romance.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2021
• Legally speaking, this effort is unserious, like trying to sign a contract 40 years too late.
  — Steve Marshall, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
• Miami is a deeply unserious city, and this is a deeply unserious cast.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
• And Johnson has a deeply unserious plan for resolving this problem.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023
• Rowling has a fatwa on her head — put there by the most unserious, hateful, and unreasonable people that our sick and sorry culture has spat out.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• His whims also include the hallmarks of an unserious campaign run by an unserious person, like stunning his own campaign by adopting a fully pro-choice position on a podcast when that ran counter to their own messaging.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024