drollery

Example Sentences

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Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2023

The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2019

One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith