- present participle of amuse.
amusing
Example Sentences
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If someone’s doing a pretty good impression of you, I think that’s kind of amusing, but he didn’t know who I was.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
That doesn't mean that comedy should suffer, with Seale saying that every time a scene could deliver a "killer gag", instead it was just "gently amusing".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Among these is Abe Burrows, played with amusing wit and oiliness by the terrific David Krumholtz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
These jokes don’t even come off as ill-intentioned; they’re just not amusing.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Vocabulary lists containing amusing
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