low comedy
comedy that depends on physical action, broadly humorous or farcical situations, and often bawdy or vulgar jokes.
Origin of low comedy
1Other words from low comedy
- low comedian, noun
- Compare high comedy.
Words Nearby low comedy
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How to use low comedy in a sentence
She was making a low comedy sound which would have distressed her beyond measure if she had heard it.
Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort MitchellOstensibly, you go to view the scenery, really, to be inveigled into paying for a low comedy of a dinner at the other end.
low comedy also draws well; and I have often wondered that Mr. Toole has not paid us a visit.
Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) TwopenyHis face and person are well adapted to a certain class of low comedy; his voice still more so.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor | Stephen Cullen CarpenterIn the region of low comedy he is easily the most original, the most inexhaustible, the most wonderful, of modern humorists.
From Chaucer to Tennyson | Henry A. Beers
British Dictionary definitions for low comedy
comedy characterized by slapstick and physical action
Derived forms of low comedy
- low comedian, noun
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