low comedy
Example Sentences
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Most of this low comedy is witless and irrelevant, dissipating the tension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Bottom’s acting troupe, meanwhile, provides low comedy of the highest order, as the bickering performers rehearse their play with a heaping dose of vaudevillian slapstick.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022
Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2019
But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2019
"Maybe he don't want to be made a new man of," suggested the low comedy man.
From A Pirate of Parts by Richard Neville
