droll

Mr. Fielder, unable to record their conversations, devises a droll workaround deploying his signature meta-comic style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

But even Hugging Face, a company of 200 employees which is now set to be acquired by Nvidia for almost $13bn, has taken a droll tone over the already infamous incident.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

These sorts of surprises bloom from the center of Olivia Wilde’s latest directorial effort, “The Invite,” a chamber comedy that’s equal parts droll and disarming.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Even “Straight White Men,” which uses the old home-for-the-holidays genre as a springboard, can’t help spinning away from the drama’s droll hyper-naturalism toward something resembling performance art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

"You're such a droll little fellow. Tell me, have you married this one yet?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Dickens fans will doubtless remember some of the droller names of the characters in his novels, elaborated in the journal he called his Book of Memoranda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

This is a subtler gesture than a few of the show's droller tourist traps, some of them macabre, and some stereotypical to the brink of begging you to scan the background for mimes in berets.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2023

The plot, presented in a droller and less hysterical vein in the novel that inspired it, is a sci-fi variation on the theme of social paranoia that has long ruled teenage entertainment.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2019

One of the droller exchanges came when he commented on all the mirrors in Mae's plushy bedroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

One, droller than the rest, threw a ball of horse manure.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

The drollest dairy origin story belongs to Rhoda Rindge Adamson.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026

Its not-so-secret weapon, though, is in its driest and drollest performance — that of priceless Tracy Lynn Olivera as the dragoon’s long-suffering better half, Charlotte.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2017

The Division’s drollest commentary comes from the art directors that underplayed the post-outbreak grime.

From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016

The opening statement — "Any resemblance to persons living or dead is, as they say, coincidental" — is among the drollest in Chabrol's oeuvre.

From Time ● Sep. 15, 2010

This Heqet must be the drollest fellow in Egypt.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw