hilariousness

Example Sentences

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“They want to see what’s going on out there in all its absurdity or its hilariousness or its scariness. They want to watch something real, and not fake.”

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

"I think comedy can usefully be used as part of the scrutiny of our political system and not just to do jokes about the physical hilariousness of some politicians," he says.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2011

It appeared in newspapers all across the country, was received as a whole new kind of hilariousness and made him famous.

From Time Magazine Archive

My dear Pierre, how often have I begged you never to permit your hilariousness to betray you into overstepping the exact line of propriety in your intercourse with servants.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Miss Lamont was infected with this gayety, and took a great deal of interest in this peripatetic band, which was playing again on the hotel piazza before dinner, with a sort of mechanical hilariousness.

From Their Pilgrimage by Warner, Charles Dudley