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
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Marshall, an experienced British journalist and foreign policy analyst, writes with the cool drollery that characterized the work of Christopher Hitchens or Simon Winchester.
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Passage of Davis-Bacon brought out the drollery in Rep. William Upshaw, a Georgia Democrat.
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Passage of Davis-Bacon brought out the drollery in Rep. William Upshaw, a Georgia Democrat.
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As the lively production at Lafayette’s Town Hall Theatre demonstrates, however, Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy remains a sparkling display of period drollery.
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Bob’s drollery was exquisite, not least in editorial matters.
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First Known Use of drollery
1597
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