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DROLL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Comical in an odd or whimsical manner
Example:
a droll little man with a quiet tongue-in-cheek kind of humor
Classified under:
Similar:
humorous; humourous (full of or characterized by humor)
Context examples:
Sometimes he won't speak to me for half a day together, and then he comes out with something so droll—all about any thing in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Fortunately the story was The Constant Tin Soldier, which is droll, you know, so I could laugh, and I did, though I didn't understand half he read, for I couldn't help it, he was so earnest, I so excited, and the whole thing so comical.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
After they had been assembled about an hour, Mr. Palmer sauntered towards the Miss Dashwoods to express his surprise on seeing them in town, though Colonel Brandon had been first informed of their arrival at his house, and he had himself said something very droll on hearing that they were to come.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In a minute a hand came down over the page, so that she could not draw, and Laurie's voice said, with a droll imitation of a penitent child, "I will be good, oh, I will be good!"
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"Mr. Palmer will be so happy to see you," said she; "What do you think he said when he heard of your coming with Mama? I forget what it was now, but it was something so droll!"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
If Beth had wanted any reward, she found it in the bright little faces always turned up to her window, with nods and smiles, and the droll little letters which came to her, full of blots and gratitude.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He is so droll!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
His bushy hair had been cut and smoothly brushed, but didn't stay in order long, for in exciting moments, he rumpled it up in the droll way he used to do, and Jo liked it rampantly erect better than flat, because she thought it gave his fine forehead a Jove-like aspect.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Jo said this with such a droll imitation of May Chester's gushing style that Amy got out of the room as rapidly as possible, feeling a strong desire to laugh and cry at the same time.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
No wonder they laughed, for the expression of his face was droll enough to convulse a Quaker, as he stood and stared wildly from the unconscious innocents to the hilarious spectators with such dismay that Jo sat down on the floor and screamed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
