Thesaurus / drollness
FEEDBACKHow to use drollness in a sentence
They loved him for his simplicity and drollness, but there hung above him a great sword of suspended judgment.
SIXES AND SEVENSO. HENRYThe dance was an eccentric mixture of drollness, innocence, and wildness.
ATLANTISGERHART HAUPTMANNMr. Fielding looked as if Dick's drollness did not appeal to him, but the Bishop laughed, and put his arm around her.
THE MILITANTSMARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWSHe looked different, more staid and respectable, but his drollness of speech and kindly manner were the same as ever.
THE EASIEST WAYEUGENE WALTER AND ARTHUR HORNBLOWThe drollness of the situation was in danger of overcoming him again.
BONAVENTUREGEORGE WASHINGTON CABLEAnd Jonas, the younger boy, has so much drollness in him and tells about pranks at school.
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD PHILADELPHIAAMANDA MINNIE DOUGLASWORDS RELATED TO DROLLNESS
- bee
- bent
- bias
- caprice
- character
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- complexion
- conceit
- disposition
- drollery
- drollness
- fancy
- farcicality
- frame of mind
- funniness
- humorousness
- individualism
- individuality
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- ludicrousness
- makeup
- mind
- nature
- notion
- personality
- propensity
- quirk
- spirits
- strain
- temper
- tone
- vagary
- vein
- whim
- wit
- wittiness
- zaniness
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