seriocomic
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of seriocomic
Example Sentences
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In a cultural landscape of darkly seriocomic prestige series like "Succession" and "The Bear," Rose Byrne is happy to just take a pratfall.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2023
Yet it also provided a fitting seriocomic role for someone whose chameleonic character gifts had already proven to be a piquant blend of the eccentric and the engaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020
And as the characters wander from Portofino to Rome and Venice — eating and flirting and getting drunk and getting sunburned — the book becomes, by its own inclination, a seriocomic picaresque.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2019
Joshua Wheeler detours around them all in favor of his native southern New Mexico in the engagingly chatty and seriocomic "Acid West."
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
"O, please spare us Dr. Johnson," cried Charlotte, with seriocomic intensity.
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
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