tragicomic

Example Sentences

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This tragicomic result winks at the slight but important difference between artistry and stardom.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

But the tale he tells is tragicomic and never less than fascinating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

"Penn is a knockout tragicomic villain: it's his best performance in years," he wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

More than 50 years since its publication, the story of the Buendía family and the tragicomic events that ravage their small town of Macondo remains one of the most beloved novels of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

But this was after the tragicomic culmination had been reached, and the burnt rags of one of these too-frequently mendacious signals gone on a progress to Washington, like Cæsar’s body, arousing indignation where it came. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis