drollery
Americannoun
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drolleries
plural
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something whimsically amusing or funny.
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an oddly amusing story or jest.
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a droll quality or manner; whimsical humor.
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the action or behavior of a droll, waggish person; jesting.
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a comic picture.
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Archaic. a puppet show.
noun
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humour; comedy
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rare a droll act, story, or remark
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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2023
And Pierce, maximizing the situational drollery, treats the character as though he were kin to one of the Gilbert & Sullivan figures he performed with aplomb in his apprenticeship days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
“Yellow Submarine” started out as a lament — “In the place where I was born/No one cared,” Lennon sang at first — but turned into sound effects-laden drollery.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
"Mr. Boyesen's stories possess a sweetness, a tenderness, and a drollery that are fascinating, and yet they are no more attractive than they are strong."
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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
With her sandpiper walk and her sandpaper voice, Ruth Gordon jigs and jaws through meandering monologues evenly divided between past loves and barroom drolleries.
From Time Magazine Archive
But its originality, its irrepressible drolleries, its substantial human nature, and its intense vitality, place it quite in a class by itself.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison
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