amused

The growing number of people who worked for Steve Eisman loved him, or were at least amused by him, and appreciated his willingness and ability to part with both his money and his knowledge.

This made Paddler giggle, but his father was not amused.

He speaks with the same measured warmth as ever — that deep, lilting rumble that can shift from conspiratorial murmur to amused growl in a heartbeat — but he sometimes loses a name mid-thought.

Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.

“I sang for my own amusement, and I wasn’t very amused,” he said recently.