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semiserious
[ sem-ee-seer-ee-uhs, sem-ahy- ]
Other Words From
- semi·seri·ous·ly adverb
- semi·seri·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of semiserious1
Example Sentences
That’s why, if you’ve got a serious home-theater system — or even a semiserious one with three or more components — a universal remote control is an amazing device to own.
Walter Bernstein, 101, a scriptwriter who was blacklisted in the 1950s for his Communist Party membership and who two decades later skewered the McCarthy era in “The Front,” a film that starred Woody Allen in a rare semiserious role and earned an Oscar nomination for best screenplay, died Jan. 23 at home in Manhattan.
Baldessari’s semiserious, stamp-printed jest surreptitiously bumped aside the Cubist painter being named.
Is this a dramatic, semiserious argument that is mostly underlining the point that something out of the ordinary needs to be done?
I promised to go in on this adorable, childlike 50-year-old and I was semiserious.
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