drollery

Example Sentences

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The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

Lapine’s book is marvelously inventive, full of elbow-nudging drollery and melancholy rumination.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2023

All of which is very funny — if that kind of quirkiness and drollery is your cup of tea.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023

It was in one of these papers that Grattan, with an audacious drollery, drew his celebrated character of Lord Chatham, as a privileged extract from a manuscript copy of Robertson’s forthcoming “History of America.”

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely