tragicomic

Example Sentences

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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

Directed by Jo Bonney in the Gil Cates Theater, the tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession and the cost of creating art.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

I am less than inspired; such plans are but another form of accommodation and normalization that border on the tragicomic.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

Then more and more evil reports began to arrive; at last, a tragicomic tale made the rounds—creating a sensation—of the newspapers, wherein his wife played an unenviable part.

From A Nobleman's Nest by Hapgood, Isabel Florence