low comedy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Most of this low comedy is witless and irrelevant, dissipating the tension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
Gaiman views much of their behavior as essentially low comedy:
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2017
So the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned.
From The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer's Comrade by Mark Twain
