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black comedy
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noun
comedy that employs morbid, gloomy, grotesque, or calamitous situations in its plot.
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Origin of black comedy
First recorded in 1965–70
Words nearby black comedy
black-coated, blackcock, blackcod, Black Code, black cohosh, black comedy, black copper, black cosmos, Black Country, black cow, black-crowned night heron
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