humor
noun
a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.
had humored
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past perfectof humor.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young officer felt that he had humored the sailor long enough; indeed, that he had allowed him far more freedom in his address than he would had given any one else.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
The evening had passed very pleasantly to Elsie; Mellen had humored her caprices at whatever cost to himself, and kept her thoughts as much aloof as possible from the events of the past days.
From A Noble Woman by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
They had humored his every whim, excused his every fault, until they had made him so vain, selfish and false that his heart must be made to bleed to bring him to his better self.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Morrison Heady
In this, at least, they had humored me.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
