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Definition of "drollness" []

  • The quality of being odd or comical (noun)

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Use "drollness" in a sentence
  • "It's hard for me to accurately convey the beauty of Elliot's story, the drollness of his script, the visual charm of his artwork, or the twisted kind of neurotic Jewish tenderness conveyed in his film."
  • "We'd had ample opportunity to digest reports of Mandelson's drollness about Gordon Brown's marketability ("I'd settle for the tie being straight"); we had been primed for the shock of seeing Lord M in his underpants (it wasn't a Chippendales moment)."
  • "I do concede that it's almost like Hess took a Wes Anderson movie and made it PG, but it's still got a cartoony, larger-than-life kinda drollness whereas Anderson has a more story-book-for-adults kinda drollness."