mirth
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Place this alongside Horace in one of his “Epistles”: “The advancing years rob us of every thing: they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Hopefully, that mirth is starting to wear thin.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2026
In summoning so much mirth for its monument to merriment, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” cheerfully rages against the dying of the light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
Eventually, though, expenses, questionable bookkeeping by associates and bad investments ate his savings, and in 1987, at 38 and weighing nearly 300 pounds, he announced, to the mirth of many, his comeback.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025
A fleeting expression that might have been unaccustomed mirth, or might have been a twinge of pain, went across her grandmother’s face.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Vocabulary lists containing mirth
"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Ender's Game
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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