drolleries

plural of drollery

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drolleries
Noun
  • And no … no more short jokes from me.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This was a couple who had never stopped laughing at one another’s jokes, who still held hands like teenagers into their 50s.
    Bee Wilson, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Rolling Stone has previously reported, bogus images of classic rockers in hospitals or singing at the graves of other rockers have flooded the internet — fooling some fans in the process and provoking laughs in just as many.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There will be plenty of laughs, too.
    Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To her credit, Shannon shakes off the incipient paranoia and goes hard into the giggles at anything and everyone at the table.
    Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • After Khloé made her mom admit what was going on, Kris broke into giggles.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Drolleries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drolleries. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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