humorousness

Example Sentences

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They trained models on pairs of text snippets that people ranked for their relative humorousness.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

At various points of time as the storm progressed, different online survey participants rated the humorousness of the tweets on one scale and their offensiveness on another.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2014

It's the supposed "humorousness" of his Washington Sketch columns that made them so embarrassing.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2010

And the look which the doctor, singing lustily, had turned upon her, held a humorousness that Char felt no disposition to reflect in her own gaze.

From The War-Workers by Delafield, E.M.

Though now thirty-five years old, he had not lost the humorousness which had procured for him the sobriquet of "Laughing Tam."

From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Smiles, Samuel