humor
noun
a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement.
have humored
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present perfectof humor.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I suppose I ought to have humored him, in order to get something.
From The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer
The knaves have humored me, hearing the tale of the pirate I knocked on the head and my braggart remark to Blackbeard.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover
"I have humored you in your childish folly, what have you to say to repay me for my trouble?"
From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown
I have humored your caprices; I have been careful not to cross your will.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
Had its opponents understood its meaning, they would have humored it into inoffensiveness; but the means they adopt to extirpate it are the sure way to develop it.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
