humorousness

Example Sentences

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They trained models on pairs of text snippets that people ranked for their relative humorousness.

From Science Magazine • May 5, 2022

At various points of time as the storm progressed, different online survey participants rated the humorousness of the tweets on one scale and their offensiveness on another.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2014

It's the supposed "humorousness" of his Washington Sketch columns that made them so embarrassing.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2010

He had a quiet humorousness of disposition, not out of keeping with a frequent melancholy, the general expression of his countenance being one of abstraction.

From Desperate Remedies by Hardy, Thomas

His observations on the character of different nations were very liberal; marking their various traits, their virtues and vices, with playful humorousness, quite free from bigotry, or narrow prejudice.

From The Pirates Own Book by Ellms, Charles