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Examples of hilarity in a Sentence
My attempt to carve the turkey was a source of great hilarity at the dinner table.
hilarity is the last thing you expect to find at a funeral, but we were there to celebrate his life rather than to dwell on his death
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The first annual Undertow Comedy Festival is taking hilarity coastal, with events in Lincoln City, April 26-28.
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This provoked hilarity among his close friends but the FBI took his word for it. * * * Invitations for talks kept landing on Beauvoir’s and Sartre’s desks at Les Temps modernes.
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Before joining in with the hilarity, consider the harm these jokes and products cause.
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The figure of the scolding, abusive wife, a reliable source of hilarity on the Elizabethan stage, will never entirely disappear.
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The airplane has always been a golden setting for sitcom hilarity.
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The unintentional hilarity here is that Lewis’s bold leap is more of a whir forward on a Segway.
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Tosh, who grew up in Titusville, has combed the internet for hilarity and incredulity for the show, which begins the new season at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Comedy Central.
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Yet the film’s unintentional hilarity earned it a devoted following.
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First Known Use of hilarity
15th century
hilarity Synonyms
Synonyms
cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, jocundity, joviality, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness;
Near Antonyms
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness;
dolefulness, dolorousness, joylessness, mournfulness, plaintiveness, woe, woefulness;
Related Words
jollification, jollity, reveling (or revelling), revelry;
brightness, buoyancy, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, humor, sunniness;
gamesomeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, playfulness, sportiveness;
buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, funning, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joking, joshing;
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping;
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