Definition of drollery
drolleries
1 : something that is droll; especially : a comic picture or drawing
2 : the act or an instance of jesting or burlesquing
3 : whimsical humor
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Examples of drollery in a Sentence
the film's sophisticated drolleries will elicit smiles and chuckles even upon repeated viewings
though generally serious, the novel about a seriously dysfunctional family is not without drollery
First Known Use of drollery
1597
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