tragicomic

Example Sentences

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But the tale he tells is tragicomic and never less than fascinating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

"Penn is a knockout tragicomic villain: it's his best performance in years," he wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

I am less than inspired; such plans are but another form of accommodation and normalization that border on the tragicomic.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

Banks’ and Pullman’s deliveries of these tragicomic characters elevate what could have been merely a genre exercise into something more fascinating and satirical.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

Resuming our march, we next arrived at the Monkey Grove, which was the scene of the tragicomic adventure by which Fritz became the guardian of the orphan ape.

From Swiss Family Robinson by Wyss, Johann David