What's the difference between moron and unfunny?

Moron


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (2) Western-ligand blot procedure using the same labelled hormone identified at least three major forms of IGF-BPs in the plasma of all four teleost species investigated: coho salmon, striped bass (Morone saxatilis), tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), and longjawed mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis).
  • (3) Recently, though, the black-tops have cut back or abandoned their analysis, having come to the conclusion that what began as an interesting psychological project has become a forum where morons audition for fleeting celebrity.
  • (4) Mandhakini Iyengar 06 February 2014 11:52am Why are all the higher officials morons?
  • (5) It wasn’t yet purely about moronic ugliness, uniformity and gobbing.
  • (6) The effects of acute and long-term changes in temperature upon catalytic and calcium regulatory function of red (slow oxidative) and white (fast glycolytic) muscle from striped bass (Morone saxatilis) were determined.
  • (7) While in a separate exchange on Facebook, of which the Daily Mail has photographs, Edoardo called another fan a “moron” during a heated exchange and also used another derogatory term.
  • (8) Between 1972 and 1975 (4 years), the Hospital de Ginecoobstetricia "Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto" of the I.M.S.S.
  • (9) 28% of the cases are psychotics, of whom 25,8% are chronic psychotics (14,8% schizophrenics; 7,7%, paranoiacs); 40,5% of the cases are psychopaths suffering from psychic imbalance; and finally, 16,4% of the cases are morons (debiles).
  • (10) He also made moronic statements like: "Books are central to the library experience" (to which I responded in a column: "This is like saying that death is central to the crematorium experience.").
  • (11) That “trollumnist” Mark Latham, that “misogynist”, “venal”, “crazy-eyed moron” whose views should be “rejected and dismantled and kicked into the gutter where they belong” has resigned from the Australian Financial Review.
  • (12) You've written a book called The Moronic Inferno .")
  • (13) Secondly, there are, indeed, many of these morons here.
  • (14) "I've read enough of his exploits to know you're a complete moron who will get everything wrong, and besides, the bits where Holmes doesn't feature are usually fairly dull."
  • (15) Young striped bass (Morone saxatilis) with uninflated gas bladders were less sensitive to selenate and more sensitive to selenite exposure than normally developing striped bass in 96-hour acute toxicity tests.
  • (16) But friends said he would never use the words morons or plebs.
  • (17) Bill Kristol thinks Walker’s showing “ basic talent, hard work and real improvement .” And Bill Kristol has only run Dan Quayle’s office, anointed Sarah Palin and been wrong about every single step of the Middle East at every point of the timeline like a Shrödinger’s Cat exercise in being a moron.
  • (18) Do you actually want to be governed by humourless, authoritarian morons?
  • (19) He sees his job unequivocally as the defence of high culture: no negotiations with the moronic inferno.
  • (20) Do not use our music or my voice for your 1) September 9, 2015 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) ...moronic charade of a campaign."

Unfunny


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crisis in the Socialist Workers party appears to confirm every one of the worst comic clichés about all that lies left of Jon Cruddas , as if the party's central committee were specifically aiming at eliciting unfunny Python comparisons.
  • (2) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
  • (3) In that case, out lesbian equalled unfunny and politically correct, and even its lesbian fans left in droves.
  • (4) The use of "lad culture" to peddle the unfunny and ill-cultured is not unique to them – and indeed, to their credit, they seem to have retreated from the internet to lick their wounds.
  • (5) Many tweeters noted the trend whereby (according to Simon Guerrero) "Channel 4 use offensive programme names but say, 'Well *they* are OK with it...'" In the Telegraph , meanwhile, the film critic Scott Jordan Harris, who is disabled, argued that "making a show just to say that disabled people should be allowed to be funny is ridiculously outdated … All [I'm Spazticus] proves is that we disabled people can be just as a mean-spirited, puerile and unfunny as the able-bodied."
  • (6) But to caricature it as an unfunny version of 1066 and All That is the kind of disingenuous misrepresentation of a document that Richard Evans would denounce as professional misconduct if he were not the historian doing it.
  • (7) Lucas and Walliams are funny because they're ironic, Moyles is unfunny because there's a victim, and his terms are unsophisticated.
  • (8) He not only represents everything a DJ shouldn't be – obnoxious, petulant, unfunny, and so over-fond of his own horrible, squeaky voice that entire half-hours can pass without any music being played – he represents everything that's wrong with this country.
  • (9) Ricky Gervais tours the country with a routine that even Kelvin MacKenzie damned as "both unfunny and offensive ... basically Jim Davidson from two decades ago."
  • (10) People say, 'Why are cabinet ministers so dour and unfunny?'
  • (11) There's always a temptation, with a tension that is quite subtle - funny homophobia, versus the unfunny kind - to try to make rules out of it.
  • (12) Most mothers and daughters don't start the jokes about killing each other until the teen years hit, but the unfunny truth is that my daughter and I were a deadly combination before she was even born.
  • (13) Maybe they would find it harder to justify a T-shirt to the survivor of childhood abuse even when similarly unfunny and harmful.
  • (14) Judd Apatow, film producer: 'As a teenager, I was really unfunny but I wanted to get into comedy...' 'As a teenager, I was really unfunny' … Judd Apatow's ideal bookshelf.
  • (15) The Mail was scathing, describing the revamp as “at best like watching a Top Gear tribute band performing one of those unfunny celebrity sketches on Comic Relief”.
  • (16) The singing is a bit sinister, and this manages to be both unfunny and rubbish.
  • (17) The Boss review – unfunny adventures in capitalism with Melissa McCarthy Read more Victory for The Boss meant Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman slipped off the top spot after just two weeks at No 1, despite its barnstorming $166m opening a fortnight ago.
  • (18) 1.49pm ET: On Twitter, a sour note from Peter Daou , who ran Hillary Clinton's online presidential primary campaign: Great turnout, but so far the #rally4sanity seems aimless and unfunny.
  • (19) Four days after Rushdie received his "unfunny Valentine", he issued an apology: "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam."
  • (20) But the joke – the unfunny, pathetic joke – is on Hodges.

Words possibly related to "unfunny"