humour
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How to use humour in a sentence
One person, however, saw the humour in this adversity and started drawing comics.
An anonymous artist is chronicling the pandemic politics in Modi’s India—one comic at a time | Ananya Bhattacharya | May 26, 2021 | QuartzThis was in 2012—a time when jokes around the price of petrol were so popular they almost made up their own humour genre in India.
Enchanted by Modi, India’s middle-class is getting squeezed with no political repercussions | Shoaib Daniyal | February 22, 2021 | QuartzEven in the painful separation of child and parent, there was humour.
The Rancid Ballad of Johnny Rotten: His Memoir Seethes With Anger—And Charm | Legs McNeil | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTake, for instance, Yiddish Mamma, a young Parisian brand that peddles its wares with love and humour.
I let him take it from my hand, knowing it was best to humour him.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He was also a man of great humour and had a real zest for life.
Prince Charles and The Queen Pay Tribute To Mandela | Tom Sykes | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe is spontaneous with a great sense of humour, humble yet at the same time driven by a healthy ambition.
Victoria Beckham Is Cover Star And Editor Of December French Vogue | Tom Sykes | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“We shall make Mr. Pickwick pay for peeping,” said Fogg, with considerable native humour, as he unfolded his papers.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2) | Charles DickensThere was a deep silence throughout the whole bivouac; some were sleeping, and those who watched were in no humour for idle chat.
Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsShe was delighted by your brilliant talk and sense of humour, but still more delighted by your cordiality and kindness.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensA certain amount of his ill-humour vented, Tressan made an effort to regain his self-control.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for humour
US humor
/ (ˈhjuːmə) /
the quality of being funny
Also called: sense of humour the ability to appreciate or express that which is humorous
situations, speech, or writings that are thought to be humorous
a state of mind; temper; mood
(in combination): ill humour; good humour
temperament or disposition
a caprice or whim
any of various fluids in the body, esp the aqueous humour and vitreous humour
Also called: cardinal humour archaic any of the four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, choler or yellow bile, melancholy or black bile) formerly thought to determine emotional and physical disposition
out of humour in a bad mood
to attempt to gratify; indulge: he humoured the boy's whims
to adapt oneself to: to humour someone's fantasies
Origin of humour
1Derived forms of humour
- humourful or US humorful, adjective
- humourless or US humorless, adjective
- humourlessness or US humorlessness, noun
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