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black humor

noun as in gallows humor

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The tension never lets up throughout “Longlegs,” though it is peppered with a dry, black humor that somehow just makes everything more disturbing.

With black humor they speak, metaphorically, of ruining their livers by working through the night.

Flecked with black humor and finely detailed pathos, the show culminates in a heart-wrenching gunfight followed by a well-earned twist ending.

The film is chock full of black humor set against steampunk visual design.

Gilman’s script offers black humor, suspense and a crushing ending.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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