gallows

Several officers told investigators that they used gallows humor as a way to deal with the stress of working long hours in a small, windowless basement office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Many China hawks in the administration have taken to gallows humor, calling the shift the ‘Busan Freeze,’ named for the South Korea meeting between the leaders that produced a fragile trade detente.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Ralph Waldo Emerson declared that Brown would “make the gallows as glorious as the cross.”

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2026

With typical gallows humour, Glaswegians dubbed it the "Death Star" after the Empire space station in the Star Wars film.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

He was sent to a psychiatric hospital rather than to the gallows.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

When knaves come to preferment, they rise as gallowses are raised in the Low Countries, one upon another's shoulders.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses."

From Queer Stories for Boys and Girls by Edward Eggleston

She knows how to deal with such gallowses; and they will keep her to cook their dinner.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

I mean, merely, that gallowses are fast disappearing, and that the people--le peuple you will understand--begin to accept money.

From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper

"I wear gallowses no more," he explained, lifting his waistcoat to show that his braces now encircled him as a belt, but even then she did not understand.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie