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

Paul Murray, another Irish writer, was nominated for “The Bee Sting,” a tragicomic family saga.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined†, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark