drolleries
- plural of drollery.
Example Sentences
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Mencken–esque drolleries that serve nobody but their own egos.
From Time • Sep. 21, 2011
It is notable for its drolleries of language and image, occasional descents into outright corniness and flat-footed insistence on randomness, coincidence or uninflected information as the artist’s main compositional options.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2010
Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this book Ski-U-Mah's ex-editor decided to double his literary smileage by combining the thoroughly worked drolleries of army life with the equally well-publicized foibles of exurbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who associates himself with our sufferings, and winces under our pain, and as suddenly rallies as we grow better, and joins in our little sickbed drolleries?
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
