Related Words for black humor

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funny
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Adjective, Adjective
gallows humor
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Phrase, Noun
blacker
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Noun
swart
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Name
slapstick
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Noun
brown
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Name
blackface
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Noun
smut
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Noun
goth
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Noun
snuff
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Noun
funny bone
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Phrase, Noun
black hat
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Name, Name
black eye
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Name, Name
parody
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Noun
chocolate
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Noun
shade
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Noun
black sheep
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Name, Name
spook
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Noun
punk
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Noun
smoking
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Noun
inside joke
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Phrase, Noun
roast
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Noun
funny business
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Phrase, Noun
standing joke
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Phrase, Noun
humbug
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Noun
underbelly
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Noun
slander
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Noun
void
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Noun
black cat
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Name, Name, Verb
black and tan
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Name, Name
ridicule
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Noun
boogie
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Noun
ghetto
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Noun
rough trade
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Phrase, Noun
strong language
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Phrase, Noun
urban legend
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Name, Name
obscenity
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Noun
black gang
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Name, Name
penny dreadful
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Phrase, Noun
black beauty
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Name, Name
dozens
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Noun
black and white
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Name, Name, Adjective
funk
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Noun
dirty word
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Phrase, Noun
tripe
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Noun
horror
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Noun
blood
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Noun
brown sugar
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Name, Name
crack
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Noun
dead meat
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Phrase, Noun
abject
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
achromatic
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Adjective
adenosine
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Noun
affiliative
x/xxx
Adjective
african
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Adjective, Name
alcohol
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Noun
amiability
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Noun
angry
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Adjective, Verb
antidiuretic
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Adjective, Noun
arrowhead
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Noun
attachment
x/x
Noun
bad
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
baltic
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Name, Adjective
banter
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Noun, Verb
beautiful
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Adjective, Noun
behavioral
x/xx
Adjective
behaviour
x/x
Noun
behavioural
x/xx
Adjective
behind
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Adverb, Adjective, Noun
belowground
x/x
Adjective
berries
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Noun
biobehavioral
x/x/xx
Adjective
black bile
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Name, Name
blacken
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Verb
blacklist
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Noun, Verb
blake
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Name, Adjective
blanco
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Name, Verb
blank
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
bleak
/
Adjective, Noun
blue
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
bon mot
xx
Phrase, Noun
bootleg
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
bosnia
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Name
bosnian
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Name, Adjective
bright
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
brother
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Noun, Verb
burlesque
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
calamitous
x/xx
Adjective
calico
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Noun, Adjective
caricature
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
cartoon
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Noun, Verb
cat
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
cherry
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Noun, Adjective
chestnut
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Noun, Adjective
clad
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Verb, Adjective
clandestine
x/x
Adjective
closet
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
coal black
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Name, Adjective, Name
cognitive
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Adjective, Noun
color
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
colorful
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Adjective
colour
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
comedy
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Noun
contraband
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
coordinated
x/xxx
Adjective
corpus
/x
Noun
covert
/x
Adjective, Noun
dark
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
darkroom
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Noun
dayton
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Name
death
/
Noun
dense
/
Adjective, Noun
descendant
x/x
Noun, Adjective
dialogic
/x/x
Adjective
dim
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
dire
/
Adjective, Noun
directive
x/x
Noun, Adjective
dirty
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disastrous
x/x
Adjective
disclosure
x/x
Noun
disgraceful
x/x
Adjective
dishonorable
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Adjective
dye
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Noun, Verb
ebony
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Noun, Adjective
eight
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Noun, Adjective
eloquence
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Noun
empathy
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Noun
evil
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
ewe
/
Noun, Adjective
farce
/
Noun, Verb
fatal
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Adjective, Noun
fateful
/x
Adjective
feeling
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Noun, Adjective
ferrous
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Adjective
forgiveness
x/x
Noun
fun
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
fur
/
Noun, Verb
gag
/
Noun, Verb
gloomy
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Adjective, Noun
gloss
/
Noun, Verb
gold
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb
good humor
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Phrase, Noun
gray
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
green
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
greenland
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Name
grey
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Adjective, Name, Verb
grim
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
halibut
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Noun
hidden
/x
Adjective, Noun
hit
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
hopeless
/x
Adjective
hostess
/x
Noun, Verb
humored
/x
Adjective
humorist
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Noun
humorous
/xx
Adjective
humour
/x
Noun, Verb
hunk
/
Noun
ignominious
xx/xx
Adjective
ill humor
//x
Phrase, Noun
illegal
x/x
Adjective, Noun
illicit
x/x
Adjective, Noun
imitation
xx/x
Noun
impersonation
xxx/x
Noun
in color
x/x
Phrase, Noun
indulge
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Verb
informal
x/x
Adjective
inglorious
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Adjective
inky
/x
Adjective, Noun
irony
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Noun, Adjective
ivory
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Noun, Adjective
jest
/
Noun, Verb, Adverb
joke
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Noun, Verb
lasalle
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Name
laugh
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Noun, Verb
lion
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Noun, Adjective
mackerel
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Noun
mafia
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Noun
man
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
maroon
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
mauve
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Adjective, Noun
melancholy
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Noun, Adjective
mono
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Noun, Adjective
monochrome
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Noun, Adjective
montenegrin
xx/x
Name, Adjective
montenegro
xx/x
Name
mood
/
Noun
mordant
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
mule
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Noun, Verb
natured
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Adjective
negative
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
nero
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Name
night
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Noun, Verb
nigra
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Noun
noir
/
Noun, Adjective
nubian
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Adjective, Name
orange
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
parallel
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Verb, Adjective, Noun, Adverb
pink
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
play
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Verb, Noun