drollery

Example Sentences

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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

She has a fine sense of drollery, her timing is exquisite, and her manner gentle and touching when the plot darkens and calamity looms.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022

His drollery tended toward the observational, and his enemies were typically along the lines of dachshunds or babies or “people from Dubuque.”

From New York Times • May 11, 2022

These antics were repeated all the while the observation lasted, and had a very funny effect in proving that drollery is practised, if not understood, in the rotatorial world.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.