comically
- a word derived from comical.
Example Sentences
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There’s an almost comically trivial air about some sections, such as the four dioramas—doll houses—recreating various White House gatherings via tiny furniture and action figures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
For reference, the Delorean time machine in Back to the Future needed 1.21 gigawatts — a figure so comically large it could only be harnessed from plutonium or a bolt of lighting.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Each version getting comically bigger, those staircases on the side that one can only imagine were generated by ChatGPT, leading to nowhere.
From Slate ● May 7, 2026
Finally, and most comically, it said it would “never assume everything is about cancer.”
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
It was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me—they looked almost comically unaggressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caught up a tree—but their numbers.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
