funny book
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of funny book
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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It's a painful and funny book about belonging and alienation with subtle and profound insights into the complicated experiences of black immigrants to the US.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2023
“Nights of Plague” is a surprisingly funny book.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022
I read this wise, often funny book over my own recent vacation.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021
This persuasive and blackly funny book of poems takes its tone and subject matter from old Hollywood movies, but the intensity of the attack is all Minnis’s.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
But although all Russia is reflected in a comic mirror, which by its very distortion emphasises the defects of each character, Gogol was not primarily trying to write a funny book.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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