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humorous

[hyoo-mer-uhs, yoo-] / ˈhyu mər əs, ˈyu- /


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The online blurb says the book is a "darkly humorous novel that uses the deftest touch to draw a thread through the lives of Welsh farmers, city accountants, Indian hoteliers and Eisteddfod mums".

From BBC

Morrison saw the potential for a humorous self-help book.

From The Wall Street Journal

French social media has been inundated with "humorous" posts about the battle between the late German dictator Adolf Hitler and Ukraine's modern-day hero Volodymyr Zelensky.

From BBC

Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.

From The Wall Street Journal

Participants also thought the brand was most confident and humorous when it embraced the negative phrase.

From The Wall Street Journal