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a funny story
a hilarious story
an amusing story
a comedic story
an entertaining story
a laughable story
a funny girl
a comical girl
a witty girl
a humorous girl
a quirky girl
a smiley girl
funny feeling
strange feeling
unusual feeling
odd feeling
peculiar feeling
weird feeling
funny business
crazy business
silly business
goofy business
weird business
wacky business
a funny thing
an interesting thing
a curious thing
an ironic thing
an amazing thing
a laughable thing

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of funny
Adjective
Comments Since Sesame Street first began airing in 1969, children have loved it thanks to the goofy, kind, funny, affectionate Muppets—including Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and the rest of the residents of the neighborhood. Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 24 Apr. 2025 Nothing funny about the first two games of the Lakers’ postseason, eight quarters of basketball that have been incredibly physical, mostly rhythmless and incredibly even. Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
More nervously unsettling than laugh-out-loud funny, Iannucci’s style works well for his incredible cast, including Steve Buscemi, Paddy Considine, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Michael Palin, and Andrea Riseborough. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 June 2024 There’s plenty of gallows humor about aging and dying, although the film moves slower than most comedies and the jokes are rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for funny
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funny
Adjective
  • There were humorous moments amid the writers’ accounts of tragedy.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • When the slasher eventually appears, stealing the group’s car before murdering them with a humorous bluntness, there is also a real atmosphere of dread.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even more bizarre was the depth the starlight's dip changed with every transit.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The gay man who was involved in Rep. Nancy Mace’s viral meltdown at an Ulta Beauty store is speaking out about the bizarre incident.
    Abby Monteil, Them., 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Although not musicians, the Goldbergs quickly realized there was something unusual about their 3-year-old boy.
    Steve Rothaus, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
  • For one group of six girls living in Waterloo, Canada, their lives took an unusual turn when a couple of very territorial geese decided to claim their front lawn as their own.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Other kids spent Saturday mornings watching cartoons.
    Leena Tailor, HollywoodReporter, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA ‘ABSOLUTELY SICK’ – Parents file federal complaints after school forces 11-year-olds to take explicit health survey.
    , FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Joy Behar landed in hot water when a joke about a decades-old scandal fell flat.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • Dave Chappelle roasted Donald Trump for taking over as chairman of the Kennedy Center—weeks after a past joke about the president went newly viral on social media.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the sequel to A Simple Favor, Lively returns as Emily Nelson alongside Anna Kendrick’s Stephanie Smothers in the comedic thriller, which premiered at South by Southwest on March 7.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 May 2025
  • In the series, Cassandra is slightly younger than her counterpart in the book, and that partly had to do with Hawes, whose dramatic and comedic abilities were crucial to the role.
    Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • And the misfortune is in our participation in that strange loop.
    Akilah Sailers, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The wish is revealing—strange and sad, and haunting in ways the biography cannot quite accommodate.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Loud noises in the night weren't uncommon—but this time was different.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025

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