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hilarity

[ hi-lar-i-tee, -lair-, hahy- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

hilarity

/ hɪˈlærɪtɪ /

1560–70; earlier hilaritie, from Latin hilaritās, equivalent to hilari(s) ( hilarious ) + -tās -ty ²

I know from her students that the masking tape incident involved little more than hilarity.

If nothing else, it is should provide a lot of unintentional hilarity.

Despite the inadvertent hilarity, the real marvel of our mobile text-correction systems is how astoundingly good they are.

And the hilarity of it was, I was in practically every scene of that episode of Scandal.

But really, these heroes of hilarity past put the oof in “spoof.”

It was her imposing crest that John's storm of hilarity had brought into view.

We have only to look at it to bring on an attack of the wildest hilarity.

Mr. Pickwick expressed his heartfelt delight at every additional suggestion; and his eyes beamed with hilarity and cheerfulness.

It was not that, however, which brought their hilarity to an end, abrupt as though a bombshell had burst in their midst.

Nor was their hilarity less, after they had parted from moorings, and were once more in mid-stream, moving onwards.

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