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drollness



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British number two Cameron Norrie has also turned to drollness as he prepares to face another opponent who has a 100% winning record over him.

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Urie’s patented drollness is the only estimable glue here, in a satire that too often lands with a Jacobean thud.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

Parker approaches her mandate to avoid political bias with a drollness that seems quintessentially British.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2017

Brad Paisley has parlayed his drollness into a long-running gig as a host of the Country Music Association Awards and a new one as M.C. for the Wild West Comedy Festival in Nashville.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2016

It is of a drollness, mes cheries," laughed Tessa Bibye one day, stopping at the cabin by the south wall; "how Francette does but sit in the shade and nurse that half-dead wolf.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe


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