gallows humor

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For local establishments, the newly offered specials are part gallows humor, part business gamble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Newsrooms being breeding grounds for gallows humor, most also understand that futility is a terrific comedy catalyst.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

“I meant it as a bit of gallows humor, but he answered by essentially saying, Actually, sort of,” Gluck, a journalist, writes in his forthcoming memoir, An Exercise in Uncertainty.

From Slate • May 2, 2025

Meetings are marked by occasional gallows humor about what catastrophe lurks around the corner.

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2024

There was a good deal of gallows humor among us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela