How to Use ha-ha in a Sentence

ha-ha

noun

• Not so much ha-ha funny as smart funny, which is probably for the best.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• But funny ha-ha peculiar, just like the director.
  — John Waters, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
• Is there anything in the wings at the IRS that will provide some guidance as to the taxable or nontaxable (ha-ha) nature of that lump sum?
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
• Brazilian fandom is a funny thing, both in its complexity — Brazil, as one of its great cultural figures once said, is not for beginners — and in the ha-ha sense.
  — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2026
• Great roles and performances, but, ha-ha, Phoenix earned his first Academy Award for Joker in 2020.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
• He’s also involved in some dodgy side hustles, which leads to a lot of peripheral gunplay and tangential, ha-ha–bang-bang set pieces that feel cherry-picked from Coen’s back catalog.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
• Meanwhile, Roy and Keeley have a very cute episode as a series of funny (well, not funny-ha-ha) things happen on the way to the Chelsea Legends induction ceremony for the former football star.
  — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026
• Naked Gun showed that there remains a ceiling with broad comedies in the streaming era, specifically titles that aren’t hybrid (hybrid meaning a movie like Deadpool & Wolverine which is half superhero, half ha-ha).
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
• Workers repairing a ha-ha, a ditch traditionally used to contain livestock without interrupting the view across an estate, uncovered a tunnel entrance, along with Tudor-era artifacts including pottery, bones, and glass bottles.
  — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026