tragicomedy
noun
tragi·com·e·dy
ˌtra-ji-ˈkä-mə-dē 
: a drama or a situation blending tragic and comic elements
Examples of tragicomedy in a Sentence
The play is a tragicomedy about a man's search for love.
Recent Examples on the Web
The tragicomedy follows a New York journalist named Ruth (Dunham), who confronts generational family trauma on a trip to Poland with her father, Edek (Stephen Fry), a Holocaust survivor.
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
Jude got his start working as an assistant director on films like Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a deliberate tragicomedy in which a grouchy old man is bounced from hospital to hospital over the course of a night because no one wants to take responsibility for treating him.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
Each installment features a member of Kinds’ rep company, playing different characters in unrelated (but thematically complementary) tragicomedies of manners; the exception is Hunter Schafer, who only briefly appears in the last third.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
The film is a tragicomedy following the family of a teenage YouTuber who posts an irreverent video lampooning a megachurch pastor in defense of his gay twin brother.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
Jude got his start working as an assistant director on films like Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, a deliberate tragicomedy in which a grouchy old man is bounced from hospital to hospital over the course of a night because no one wants to take responsibility for treating him.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
Each installment features a member of Kinds’ rep company, playing different characters in unrelated (but thematically complementary) tragicomedies of manners; the exception is Hunter Schafer, who only briefly appears in the last third.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
The film is a tragicomedy following the family of a teenage YouTuber who posts an irreverent video lampooning a megachurch pastor in defense of his gay twin brother.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
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“Tragicomedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tragicomedy. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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